Dr Nandi Chinna is an experienced Research Consultant specialising in the area of cultural and ecological history. Her Place Based Engagement research consultancy focusses on place based engagement, ethno-botanical and geo-cultural histories. Some of her clients have included Kings Park and Botanical Garden, the Water Corporation of Western Australia, and the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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Research projects Nandi has managed include:
- Kep Waangkiny – Water Stories of Noongar Boodja, Traditional Stories of Water in the Perth Region of Western Australia, for the Water Corporation of Western Australia (2018);
- Long Trails Maps; Writing interpretive materials for WA’s Long Trails (Bibbulmun Track, Munda Biddi Trail, Cape to Cape to Trail), Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions WA (2017-18);
- Understories: a social and cultural history of Kings Park and Botanical Garden, Perth, WA, 2015;
- Clontarf Hill Heritage Interpretation Project, (winner of the 2016 Fremantle History Prize), Lotteries West Grant, 2015;
- Floracultura, the cultural life of the plants of Kings Park, Edith Cowan University and CREATEC, 2013;
- Perth’s Lost Wetlands, curation of an exhibition tracing Perth’s lost water bodies with City of Perth, CREATEC, 2013–2014;.
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