Stakeholder engagement and relations, Geography, Stakeholder, Social capital, Institutional, Resource view of competitive advantage, Agency, Core-periphery, Interviews, Focus groups, Observation, Mining, Aboriginal community engagement
Current Research Projects:
Identifying why some mining firms negotiate with Aboriginal communities and settle on sometimes generous contractual obligations in pursuit of a mineral development.
Synthesising and 'testing' the scholarly and industry-generated literature on community engagement in the mining sector in order to develop a best practice tool-kit.
Identifying the conditions that best enable mining to contribute to sustainable economic development for northern, Aboriginal communities