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Emma Lee
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Professor Emma Lee
Emma Lee is a Trawlwulwuy woman from Tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania. She joined Federation University in March 2023 to further the research and social impacts of the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice. Emma is an internationally recognised expert on Indigenous methodologies, especially as applied to land and sea management. She has written books, papers and reports on Indigenous rights, governance and regional development. Her favourite research areas are government policy, renewables, tourism and fisheries. Emma has also led work to establish a market for cultural fisheries in Tasmania through an inaugural Aboriginal food tourism trail based on commercial abalone operations.
In 2023 she became the first Indigenous woman to be a global recipient of a Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation. In 2021, she was the first Indigenous Australian editor of a Best Practice Guideline for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Emma was also a finalist for 2022 Australian of the Year (Tasmania) for her body of work in Indigenous rights.
Emma Lee is a Trawlwulwuy woman from Tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania. She joined Federation University in March 2023 to further the research and social impacts of the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice. Emma is an internationally recognised expert on Indigenous methodologies, especially as applied to land and sea management. She has written books, papers and reports on Indigenous rights, governance and regional development. Her favourite research areas are government policy, renewables, tourism and fisheries. Emma has also led work to establish a market for cultural fisheries in Tasmania through an inaugural Aboriginal food tourism trail based on commercial abalone operations.
In 2023 she became the first Indigenous woman to be a global recipient of a Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation. In 2021, she was the first Indigenous Australian editor of a Best Practice Guideline for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Emma was also a finalist for 2022 Australian of the Year (Tasmania) for her body of work in Indigenous rights.
