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2025 Laureate Profile: Professor Felicity Meakins

Headshot: Professor Felicity Meakins

Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland

Fellowship Project Summary

FL250100115 – Amplifying Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Western Science with Language

Professor Meakins aims to explore how Indigenous languages encode ecological knowledge and social dynamics. This project will show how language is shaped by Country and structures knowledge about it, offering new insights into Australia’s cultural and environmental history. The research will support Indigenous language renewal, inform conservation practices, and contribute to curriculum development. It will also enhance public understanding of Indigenous knowledge systems during the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages.

 

Australian Research Council Funding: $4,003,621