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You will be responsible for research that addresses the needs of Indigenous people and communities through quantification of the cumulative economic and commercial benefits derived from an Indigenous restoration economy. Specifically, you will document the productive capacity of Indigenous enterprise and its influence on skills pathways, Indigenous household income, welfare payments, individual and community health and wellbeing.

In addition, you will undertake calculations of economic multipliers associated with applied skills training, individual employment and enterprise opportunities to assist in the assessment of direct and indirect impacts on government support payments and linkages between social and civic infrastructure and social and economic resilience.

The position is based in Perth and will involve collaboration with the Curtin and UWA Healing Country Chief Investigators. The successful candidate will make a substantial contribution to the research of Healing Country, the host School, and the University of Western Australia.  You will collaborate, and partner with Indigenous research users, and liaise with industry partners in the Healing Country network. The candidate will develop and maintain a research profile at national and international levels and be involved in post-graduate student supervision.

This scholarship is particularly targeting Indigenous Australian candidates. We are seeking candidates with a background in one or several of the following: political science; economics; finance; business; economic or political geography; ecological sciences.

Professor Fiona M Haslam McKenzie | fiona.haslam-mckenzie@uwa.edu.au