PhD candidate , The University of Queensland
Lynda is currently under taking a Ph.D. entitled Pathways, opportunities and challenges for women working across the gemstone value chain in Madagascar.
Lynda is also the knowledge transfer and training manager at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. She has designed and led training and train the trainer programs in the extractive industry in Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. She is especially interested in miner education and in practical field gemmology courses for women miners. She is currently designing a specialised online course Understanding Coloured Gemstones. Her special area of expertise is in women in gemstone mining in Madagascar and she is currently researching women’s work across the sapphire value chain: miners, traders, cutters and jewellers.
She is a senior researcher on the Tiffany and Co Foundation Coloured Gemstone Knowledge Hub GemHub.
Sapphire secrets: they aren't all blue, and mining them requires luck plus labour
Aug 13, 2018 15:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
My favourite gem is an occasional series where we ask a scientist to share the fascinating geological and social features of a beautiful rock. Part 1 is here. I first remember seeing sapphires as a teenager in a...
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