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Sandie Suchet-Pearson is an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at Macquarie University, where she holds an ARC Future Fellowship. She is affiliated with the School of Communication, Society and Culture and is associated with several research centers including the Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre, Housing and Urban Research Centre, and Environmental Law Research Centre.
Her research focuses on:
- Indigenous rights and environmental management across multiple contexts including North East Arnhem Land, western Sydney, Cape York Peninsula, Canada and southern Africa
- Indigenous self-determination in cultural tourism contexts
- Caring-as-Country practices in both remote and urban environments
- More-than-human geographies and collaborative research methodologies
- Cross-cultural environmental management approaches
Professor Suchet-Pearson is a key member of the Bawaka Collective, an Indigenous and non-Indigenous research collective that includes Indigenous elders and academic researchers. She also leads a collaborative project with Darug custodian Uncle Lexodious Dadd focused on Caring-as-Country mechanisms at Yellomundee Regional Park in western Sydney, with three main aims: enhancing environmental stewardship practices, building cultural awareness, and developing adaptive models for cross-cultural environmental management.
Her scholarly contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards including the Green Gown Award Australasia 'Benefitting Society' Award (2019) and the National Trust (NSW) Award for Aboriginal Heritage Project (2020).
As an educator, Professor Suchet-Pearson teaches ENV118: Environmental Management for a Changing World and GEOP380: Human Geography in Action, and actively supervises numerous PhD and Masters students working across Indigenous rights, human-nature relationships, and cross-cultural environmental management.
