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Mandy Downing
Mandy Downing is a Ngarluma Yindjibarndi woman who descends from the Lockyer family of the Pilbara region in Western Australia. However, is located and was raised on Wadjuk Noongar Boodjar.
Mandy is the Dean, Indigenous Futures which is responsible for ensuring Australia’s Indigenous futures across the nation’s culture and economy are supported and considered in the learning, research and partnership activities of the Faculty of Humanities.
Mandy joined Curtin University in 2012 as a Research Ethicist to ensure the university meets their ethical obligations in conducting human and animal research and to contribute to the development and promotion of an ethical and compliant research culture. Mandy has worked in various research management roles for over 10 years.
Nationally, Mandy is the Senior Indigenous Facilitator for the National Environmental Science Program Sustainable Communities and Waste Research Hub and is the Co-Chair of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies National Research Ethics Committee.
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