CitSciOzOnline EMCR: Cross-cultural Collaborative Science with Australia’s First Scientists - Dr Ens
Channel: Australian Citizen Science Association
Date: 2020-11-09

Cross-cultural collaborative science with Australia’s first scientists - Dr. Emilie Ens


Aboriginal people were and are Australia’s first scientists and hence are not technically citizen scientists from their perspective. Our cross-cultural and collaborative approach to research is pushing the frontier of citizen science to consider all people as scientists, people who ask questions, and study things. Science should not be the exclusive domain of those who have a Science degree. In this talk, Dr. Ens briefly discusses the collaborative biocultural research in Arnhem land with Aboriginal Rangers, schools, and communities and how, with a focus on delivering mutual benefits, we can have outcomes for science, culture, and community development.


Dr. Emilie has worked for 12 years with Aboriginal Ranger groups and communities in Arnhem Land, and more recently Nth NSW, to co-develop cross-cultural environmental monitoring tools. She has co-authored many publications including a 46 author multilingual field guide on cross-cultural and collaborative approaches to science. With the Ngukurr Wi Stadi Bla Kantri (We Study the Country) Research Group, she won the 2017 Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science.  

Twitter: @EmilieEns @MQEarthEnv @cachemq @Macquarie_Uni

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilie-ens-2595025a