Diane Smith

Diane Smith is an anthropologist, Senior Research Fellow, (Delegated) Associate Dean (Education/Research) and Higher Degree Research (HDR) Program Manager at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the ANU. Diane gained her PhD (Anthropology, Indigenous Governance) from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. She was a Chief Investigator for the groundbreaking Australian 'Indigenous Community Governance Research Project' (2002-2008), and...See more

Diane Smith is an anthropologist, Senior Research Fellow, (Delegated) Associate Dean (Education/Research) and Higher Degree Research (HDR) Program Manager at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the ANU. Diane gained her PhD (Anthropology, Indigenous Governance) from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. She was a Chief Investigator for the groundbreaking Australian 'Indigenous Community Governance Research Project' (2002-2008), and has been a mediation member of the National Native Title Tribunal. She is a Board Director of the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute and wrote the content for the comprehensive AIGI online Indigenous Governance Toolkit. Diane was a co-editor of the influential Australian volume Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia, co-edited by Janet Hunt, Diane Smith, Stephanie Garling and Will Sanders, CAEPR, ANU EPress (2008). Diane has published extensively over forty years on topics Indigenous governance, development, welfare, resource agreements, native title and land rights, women's scared sites and knowledge, Indigenous Studies and research methodologies, Indigenous Affairs policy and governmentality. See less