Melbourne School of Population Health

		Australian Indigenous Studies Centre for Health & Society Melbourne School of Population Health Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Tel:    +61 3 8344 9161 Fax:    +61 3 8344 0824 Email: lonj@unimelb.edu.au

Judy Longbottom has been employed since 2010 on ARC Linkage Project, "Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Economic Empowerment, Wealth Creation and Institutional Reform for Sustainable Indigenous and Local Communities" www.atns.net.au.

_{Previous work history:}

• _{2005-10. Freelance editor, Melbourne.}

• _{2001-4. Research Scientist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Applied anthropologist. Projects included coordination of a study of the resettlement of refugees in Arizona funded by the Refugee Resettlement Program www.bara.arizona.edu.}

• _{1995-2001. Administrator then Research Associate, Drylands Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK. Latterly responsible for managing research and advocacy activities relating to land tenure and access to natural resources in West Africa; the impact of policies on sustainable livelihoods in Ghana and Nigeria; land tenure networking activities in Africa and Europe including providing support to the land policy advisor at the British international development agency DFID; land transactions in the peri-urban interface of Kumasi, Ghana. www.iied.org.} 

• _{1995-2001. Administrator then Research Associate, Drylands Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK. Latterly responsible for managing research and advocacy activities relating to land tenure and access to natural resources in West Africa; the impact of policies on sustainable livelihoods in Ghana and Nigeria; land tenure networking activities in Africa and Europe including providing support to the land policy advisor at the British international development agency DFID; land transactions in the peri-urban interface of Kumasi, Ghana. www.iied.org.}

• _{1990-1993. Agriculturalist/trainer/advisor to development NGOs in Northern Ghana, West Africa. A field based project worker for the NGO TRAX Program Support, implementing a watershed management project which involved training of technicians, farmers and local counterpart in appropriate agronomic and agroforestry techniques. Latterly involved in training.}