L McDonald

Mx L McDonald

Vice Chancellor's Indigenous Doctoral Fellow

Details

Open to

  • Collaborative projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Teaching provision

About

L McDonald collaborates with First Nations communities and researchers for grass roots, community led projects which meet community priorities.

 

 

 

Research fields

  • 451902 Global Indigenous studies environmental knowledges and management
  • 451904 Global Indigenous studies peoples, society and community
  • 450301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agriculture and forestry
  • 470205 Cultural studies of agriculture, food and wine
  • 4106 Soil sciences
  • 370704 Surface water hydrology
  • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity

UN sustainable development goals

  • 13 Climate Action
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 14 Life Below Water
  • 15 Life on Land
  • 17 Partnerships for the Goals
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Teaching interests

Indigenous governance

Community led projects

Reading Country

Healing country

Water

Biodiversity

Soil

 

Research interests

Healthy country for healthy culture and planet.

 

First Nations community led projects, across science, social science, health and enviromennt. 

 

Climate change reduction, adaptation.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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