CQUniversity Physiotherapy student Sherry-Kaye Savage is currently in New York as one of six Australian delegates attending the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as part of the Global Voices Initiative.

Meanwhile, environmental economics PhD researcher Megan Star has been selected to attend the Global Voices Nairobi Study Tour on Sustainable Development from June 22 to July 1 in Kenya.

PhD researcher Megan Star will be part of a Global Voices Study Tour to Africa

The Study Tour will visit several UN institutions before travelling in the field to observe projects on the ground. This will give delegates the chance to engage with policy formation and prominent policy makers while forming a deeper understanding of the importance and outcomes of these policies for local populations.

The delegation will meet representatives from the Australian High Commission to Kenya, the UN Environment Program, the UN Development Program, and the UN Human Settlements Program.

Sherry-Kaye Savage and Megan Star chat about their Global Voices Study Tours

Delegates will also complete a small volunteer project with the Centre of Partnership and Civic Engagement.

Megan, who is researching farmland ground cover as a way of reducing sediment loads entering the Great Barrier Reef, says the Study Tour will enable her to put her skills and knowledge of sustainability and development into practice. Based on her experiences, she will produce a paper on sustainable development to be published by Global Voices.

"While in Kenya I'll get to see water sanitation in the slums of Nairobi and review agricultural irrigation and general water storage in Kenya," she says.

Megan spent nine months in Argentina last year engaging with experts in pasture systems but this will be her first visit to Africa.

Details on the Global Voices Nairobi Study Tour are available HERE .