Tadzkia Nurshafira is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), Sustainable Minerals Institute. Her PhD project examines how just transition takes shape in different critical mineral commodity chains in Indonesia and the factors contributing to the variations. Tadzkia's research focuses on the relationship between value chains and resource materialities to understand how justice is defined and acted upon at different production chain levels. Her advisory team is Professor Deanna Kemp and Dr Vigya Sharma.
Tadzkia holds a master’s degree in politics and government with a specialisation in natural resource politics and a bachelor’s degree in international relations, both from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. Upon completion of her master's, she worked as a Researcher and a Program Manager at the Department of Politics and Government, UGM. Tadzkia specialises in project management through her long experiences in a research-based educational partnership between UGM and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) titled Citizen Engagement and Natural Resource Governance Education (Citres-Edu). This included her recently funded Engaging with Just Sustainable Transition (EnJuST) project, where Tadzlkia was engaged with the local government, state-owned enterprises, local communities, mining companies, academics, and NGOs to coproduce knowledge and policy inputs on socially responsible sourcing of mineral commodities in Indonesia.
Tadzkia is intrigued by the agency of the nonhumans in the social-political governance of resources. She has been engaging with this approach and working under the Citizen Engagement, Transparency, and Transnational Natural Resource Governance (https://www.citres.net/) consortium to analyse group identity, network, and power used in the construction of ‘resources’ and in the formation of political subjects within the context of extractive industries. She is part of the Biodiversa+ EPICC (Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains Multilevel Governance for Biodiversity-Climate) network that seeks to map the power links connecting multiple territories of production and their plural legal systems with the European socio-economic space.
In 2024, Tadzkia was awarded a fully funded scholarship from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP Scholarship) to pursue her PhD at The University of Queensland.