Objectives
The Socioeconomics Research Theme’s focus is the quantification of the cumulative economic and commercial benefits derived from an Indigenous Restoration Economy, including measurement of labour, wages growth, employment statistics, productivity, savings in welfare payments and ongoing investment in local and regional enterprise. In addition, calculations of economic multipliers associated with applied skills training, individual employment, and enterprise opportunities to assist in the assessment of the direct and indirect impacts on government support payments and linkages between social and civic infrastructure and social and economic resilience.
Research and Indigenous collaboration focus areas
- Restoration finance: Supporting Indigenous partners to navigate financing mechanisms and align restoration goals with place-based priorities and local aspirations and benefits.
- Indigenous entrepreneurship: Enhancing Indigenous capability and readiness to manage restoration enterprises through collaborative governance and culturally appropriate approaches.
- Valuing multiple benefits: Co-designing valuation assessments with diverse indicators that account for multiple values and a wide range of socio-cultural and economic benefits.
- Collaborative decisions: Enabling Indigenous organisations to co-develop pathways that influence decision-making through inclusive tools for restoration planning, monitoring, and reporting.
Our team includes Theme Leads Post Doctoral Researchers and PhD students
