Project leader awarded for Indigenous water rights research

Associate Professor Elizabeth Jane Macpherson, project leader for the Policy and legislation for EBM project, has been presented the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities.

The award recognises her work exploring opportunities for Indigenous peoples' water rights in laws and policies around the world.

The award is presented for the encouragement of early-career researchers currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand for humanities research in New Zealand by Royal Society Te Apārangi. Elizabeth is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Canterbury.