Sadia Khaja wins Humanitarian Engineering Honours award
Published on the 15 December 2025
Congratulations to Sadia Khaja for being awarded the Term 2 2025 Humanitarian Engineering Honours Research Thesis Award. Sadia worked with the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) and others to examine the experiences of First Nations people and drinking water systems, and her research has already been valuable to the DEG in its advocacy efforts. Sadia was supervised by long-term Yuwaya Ngarra-li collaborators Greg Leslie and Martin Andersen. Her thesis was recognised for its quality, humanitarian context and societal impact.
Sadia Khaja presents her Honours thesis in Walgett, entitled 'The Interface between Technical, Social, and Economic Challenges of Drinking Water in Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia'
Sadia Khaja in Walgett