Overview
Background
Julia Keenan is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. With over 15 years at CSRM, her work focuses on social performance, sustainable development, and Indigenous self-determination within the extractive industries.
Julia’s research examines the relationship between mining operations and local communities, focusing on agreement-making, gender equity, economic participation, and mine closure. Her PhD investigates corporate social performance (CSP), exploring policy implementation gaps, stakeholder engagement, and social safeguards throughout the mining lifecycle.
Julia has contributed to global mineral resource governance projects, partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme to implement the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) Resolution on Mineral Resource Governance. She also worked on the Strategic Regional Environmental and Baseline Assessment (SREBA) for the Beetaloo Sub-basin, profiling community concerns about resource development.
Since 2023, Julia has coordinated CSRM’s involvement in the Community Smart Consultation and Consent Project (CSCC), which focuses on improving natural resource governance through community-based consultation and FPIC. She has co-authored guidance documents for the International Council on Mining and Metals and Rio Tinto.
Julia holds a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (Hons in Linguistics) from The University of Queensland and is nearing completion of her PhD.
Availability
- Ms Julia Keenan is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
Works
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2024
Other Outputs
Returning land to local communities: a Tanzanian case study and lessons for responsible land divestment
Keenan, Julia and Hannay, Leslie (2024). Returning land to local communities: a Tanzanian case study and lessons for responsible land divestment. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.
2024
Other Outputs
Dynamics in consultation and consent: a guided exploration of consultation and consent in natural resource management in principle and practice
Keenan, Julia (2024). Dynamics in consultation and consent: a guided exploration of consultation and consent in natural resource management in principle and practice. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.
2023
Other Outputs
Social, Cultural and Economic (SCE) studies of the Strategic Regional Environment and Baseline Assessment (SREBA) for the Beetaloo Sub-basin https://territorystories.nt.gov.au/10070/903893
Witt, K, Keenan, J, Lewis, G, Fredericks, B, Holcombe, S, Jezierski, P, Jessup, L and Zhang, H (2023). Social, Cultural and Economic (SCE) studies of the Strategic Regional Environment and Baseline Assessment (SREBA) for the Beetaloo Sub-basin https://territorystories.nt.gov.au/10070/903893. Darwin, NT, Australia: Northern Territory Government.
2022
Journal Article
Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia and Hailu, Degol (2022). Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability, 6 (1), 21-27. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-00967-9
2022
Other Outputs
Mineral resource governance and the global goals: an agenda for international collaboration - report of activities to implement United Nations environment assembly resolution on mineral resource governance (UNEP/EA.4/Res.19)
Daniel Franks, Julia Keenan, Angela Kariuki and Elisa Tonda (2022). Mineral resource governance and the global goals: an agenda for international collaboration - report of activities to implement United Nations environment assembly resolution on mineral resource governance (UNEP/EA.4/Res.19). Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme.
2022
Other Outputs
Post-mining land uses
Beer, Andrew, Haslam-McKenzie, F, Weller, S, Davies, A, Côte, Claire Madeleine, Ziemski, Marcin, Holmes, K and Keenan, Julia C. (2022). Post-mining land uses. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: CRC TiME.
2022
Other Outputs
Mineral resource governance and the global goals: an agenda for international collaboration. Summary of the UNEA 4/19 Consultations.
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2022). Mineral resource governance and the global goals: an agenda for international collaboration. Summary of the UNEA 4/19 Consultations.. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2021
Book Chapter
The state’s stakes at the Century Mine, 1992–2012
Everingham, Jo-Ann, Trigger, David and Keenan, Julia (2021). The state’s stakes at the Century Mine, 1992–2012. The absent presence of the state in large-scale resource extraction projects. (pp. 279-312) edited by Nicholas A. Bainton and Emilia E. Skrzypek. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/ap.2021.09
2021
Journal Article
Mining as a temporary land use: A global stocktake of post-mining transitions and repurposing
Keenan, Julia and Holcombe, Sarah (2021). Mining as a temporary land use: A global stocktake of post-mining transitions and repurposing. The Extractive Industries and Society, 8 (3) 100924, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100924
2020
Other Outputs
Community participation in mine closure planning processes
Bainton, Nick, Holcombe, Sarah, Mackenzie, Sarah and Keenan, Julia (2020). Community participation in mine closure planning processes. Social Aspects of Mine Closure. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland.
2020
Conference Publication
Mining as a temporary land use: A global scoping project on transitions and repurposing
Holcombe, Sarah and Keenan, Julia (2020). Mining as a temporary land use: A global scoping project on transitions and repurposing. Planning for Closure: 3rd International Congress on planning for closure of mining operations , Santiago, Chile , 7-11 September 2020.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Latin America and the Caribbean
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Latin America and the Caribbean. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary West Asia
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary West Asia. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Asia Pacific
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Asia Pacific. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Africa
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Program and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Europe and the Caucasus
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary Europe and the Caucasus. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary North America
Franks, Daniel M., Keenan, Julia, Tonda, Elisa and Kariuki, Angela (2020). Implementing UNEA Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance: Regional Summary North America. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Discussion Paper for Regional Consultations on the Implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly Resolution on Mineral Resource Governance (UNEP/EA.4/Res. 19)
Franks, Daniel M., Tonda, Elisa, Kariuki, Angela and Keenan, Julia (2020). Discussion Paper for Regional Consultations on the Implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly Resolution on Mineral Resource Governance (UNEP/EA.4/Res. 19). Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme.
2020
Other Outputs
Mining as a temporary land use: transitions and repurposing.
Holcombe, Sarah and Keenan, Julia (2020). Mining as a temporary land use: transitions and repurposing. . Social Aspects of Mine Closure. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland.
2019
Journal Article
A sustainable future for mining by 2030? Insights from an expert focus group
Littleboy, Anna, Keenan, Julia, Ordens, Carlos M., Shaw, Andrea, Tang, Roger H., Verrier, Brunilde, Vivoda, Vlado, Yahyaei, Mohsen and Hodge, R. Anthony (2019). A sustainable future for mining by 2030? Insights from an expert focus group. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6 (4), 1086-1090. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.11.005
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