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Dr Miri (Margaret) Raven (a Noongar-Yamatji and non-Indigenous woman from Western Australia) is a Senior Scientia Lecture, 91É«ÇéƬ Australia, Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC); and Environment & Society (E&S) Group, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA).

Dr Raven is a geographer with research interests on Indigenous food stories, protocols, policies, and the role of Indigenous knowledge(s) in biodiversity conservation. Their PhD, Gatekeepers, guardians and gatecrashers: the enactment of protocols to protect IndigenousÌýknowledge, and how protocols order these practices, explored the enactment of protocols in an AustralianÌýCooperative Research Centre (CRC). Her current research explores protocol in the context ofÌýIndigenous food security at the household level, and the implementation of biodiversityÌýconservation.Ìý

Dr Raven's current research explores protocol in the context of Indigenous food security at the household level; the implementation of biodiversity conservation legislation; COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples; and Aboriginal cultural resilience, health and wellbeing in NSW.

Dr Raven is a member of theÌýAustralian Research Council College of Experts and theÌýInstitute of Australian Geographers (IAG).

Dr Raven has engaged in international negotiations through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the UN Convention on Biodiversity Conservation. She was a 2016-2019 Macquarie University Fellowship for Indigenous Researchers, Department of Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW;ÌýÌýa 2003/2004 PhD Fellow with the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Yokohama, Japan; and a 2009 Indigenous Fellow with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland.ÌýÌý