| Dr Mahnaz Alimardanian |
Experience:
I am a social scientist with professional research experience in socio-cultural anthropology, and in conducting applied research.
PiiR stands for Professional Independent Indigenous Research.
PiiR Consulting provides social and cultural research and community engagement services for:
- Native title, Indigenous land and cultural rights, compensation, and social justice claims
– Preparation of expert evidence reports (fieldwork and desktop research)
– Assessment and peer review of documents and submissions.
- Cultural value and social impact assessments
– Community engagement, consultation, and evaluation
– Research and strategy development for project outcomes
– Systematic review of research-evidence and literature
– Preparation of qualitative research reports, guidelines & publications.
- Trauma informed and healing centered social projects (Community development or creative arts projects)
– Community engagement and consultation
– Project management
– Background research
– Mentorship.
In PiiR Consulting, the following key principles guide community engagement and research:
Free Prior Informed Consent, Privacy of personal information, Respect of the ownership of information, and Commitment to the best practice guidelines and standards including United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Code of Ethics (Australian Anthropological Society), Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), and Expert Evidence Practice Note (Federal Court of Australia).
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| Archae-aus – Archaeology & Cultural Heritage Management Consultants | Archae-aus Perth WA |
Staff anthropologists (alphabetical order of surname):
Koa Jaensch, Dr Adele Millard, Phoebe Oliver, Dr Jaimal Sandhu, Dr Janelle White.
Collective areas of anthropological expertise: native title research in land, sea, regional, and urban settings; cultural heritage research and management; customary marine tenure; public health; Indigenous genealogy; cultural mapping; GIS mapping; ethnographic compliance; due diligence assessments; project coordination; facilitating cultural camps for intergenerational knowledge sharing; oral history recording; environmental monitoring; Indigenous economic development; cultural capacity building; social inclusion; ethnographic and documentary filmmaking; academic research; education and training; working with Indigenous communities, governments, academic institutions, and NGOs.
Experience:
- research and writing native title claim reports;
- preparing native title genealogies;
- native title filmmaking for early evidence;
- preparing expert witness reports;
- giving court evidence and undergoing cross-examination;
- PBC development and management.
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| Dr Catherine Wohlan |
Worked in native title and related areas since 1996, including experience working in the private sector for indigenous land councils and as a consultant.
Expertise includes cultural mapping, heritage impact assessment, native title including compensation, and inquiries undertaken under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, Northern Territory.
Author of multiple reports providing internal expert advice and for filing in the Federal Court.
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| Allison Thatcher |
Summary of Experience and Skills:
Education:
* Master of Anthropology (Advanced), Australian National University (2017);
* Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Research), Monash University (2009);
* Bachelor Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1999).
Experience:
- 20 years’ experience working with Australian First Nations communities and their organisations as well as the government and private sector throughout the Northern Territory, North Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia.
Skills:
- Native title: anthropology research, report writing, compiling genealogies, community engagement and project management.
- Cultural heritage management: site surveys, cultural values assessments, and report writing.
- Post determination: Prescribed Body Corporate support including policy writing, strategic planning, community consultation, and implementing systems to evaluate and respond to future act notifications.
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| Emily Sexton |
Areas of Expertise
Working with boards and operations teams across all aspects of PBC operations, governance, business and strategy.
Experience
- Agreement review and advisory
- Stakeholder management
- Joint venture negotiation
- Governance training
- Strategic planning
- Business development
- Policy development (preferential procurement / preferential employment)
- Cultural governance frameworks
- Cultural heritage management systems
- Funding facilitation including grant opportunities
- Project planning and management
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| Dr James Rose |
ABN: 61 748 524 226
PhD, BA(Hons) Social Anthropology; Director and Senior Consultation Social Anthropologist, RMA (Relational Modelling & Analysis)
Areas of Expertise
- Forensic and Expert Social Anthropology (FESA), suitable to a range of statutory and common law legal-administrative applications
- Culturally based Indigenous and customary property rights, including land, sea, and natural resources, data and intellectual property, and child custody
- Cultural heritage preservation, including evidence preservation, moveable and immovable tangible and intangible cultural heritage
- Advanced social mapping and genealogical modelling, including claim group development, ancestor identification, and scaffolding for community conflict resolution
- Advanced geospatial mapping (GIS), including small-to-large scale population modelling & analysis
- Social and kinship network analysis, (SNA, KNA) spatiotemporal kinship network analysis (stKNA)
- Training and mentoring
- Research database design and development, including data governance
Experience
- 22-years’ experience providing forensic and expert social anthropological services to native title claims and negotiations, and cultural preservation processes across Australia, including more than 2,000 remote, regional, and urban area community consultations and lead authorship of more than 150 reports.
- Provision of fact and expert opinion evidence to over 15 native title claims and negotiations under the Commonwealth Native Title Act (1993), in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The largest claims on which I have been engaged as the lead expert include:
- Gomeroi People (NSD37/2019) (111,317 sq km)
- Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan People (NSD38/2019) (95,044 sq km)
- South Coast People (NSD1331/2017) (16,809 sq km)
- Provision of fact and expert opinion evidence to tangible and intangible cultural heritage processes under various statutory and common law regimes in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales, including particularly the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act (1989)
- Lead development and curation of the largest fully cross-reference digital genealogy in Australia (the ‘UNIIFIED Genealogy’ documenting more than 85,000 individuals), hosted by New South Wales NTSP NTSCORP
- Design and development of advanced, secure, multi-user research databases for multirole NTSPs, Land Councils, and government agencies, including most notably the New South Wales Office of Aboriginal Affairs.
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| Dr Pamela McGrath |
Canberra based
Areas of Expertise:
- Native title anthropology
- Indigenous cultural heritage management
- WA, Victoria and Qld
- Facilitation and mediation
- Project and program management
Experience:
- 7 years as a consultant anthropologist, providing independent expert advice for both consent and litigated matters.
- 12 years in research management for RNTBCs, government and academia (including AIATSIS, NNTT and ANU).
- 4 years as a RNTBC in-house anthropologist.
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| Kim McCaul |
Experience:
- compensation matters
- connection reports and reviews of connection reports (in NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC, WA) both for contested hearings and consent determination processes
- intangible heritage documentation
- PBC membership reviews; professional development training for rep body staff (mediation, cross cultural communication, ethnographic analysis)
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| Dr Michael Lucas |
Areas of interest:
- Cultural heritage
- Native title claims
- Dispute resolution
- Data management and analytics
- Agreement-making
- GIS and spatial mapping
- Indigenous business and governance advising
Experience:
- PBC management and governance reform; cultural heritage and agreement-making (QLD & NT), traditional knowledge commercialisation projects, and data analysis.
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| Daisy Goodwin |
Focus areas:
Governance, strategy, economic development, conservation
Daisy Goodwin is a cultural and environmental anthropologist who has spent the last eight years working across regional Western Australia supporting Aboriginal-led land and sea initiatives and advocating for First Nations interests across government and industry.
Her work has largely focused on supporting Aboriginal leadership in carbon farming, bushfoods and clean energy and promoting First Nations data sovereignty.
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| Craig Elliott |
Specific areas of expertise and interest:
* Native Title and NT Land Rights claim research and reporting;
* Native Title Compensation claim research;
* Native Title report Peer Review;
* Indigenous applied public health research;
* Indigenous Intestate claims research and advice;
* Social Impact Assessment.
Experience:
- 1992-2006, 2017-2025: Consultant Anthropologist (in Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia)
- 2006–2017: Senior Anthropologist, Native Title Research Coordinator, Central Land Council, Alice Springs, NT.
- Expert Witness in Native Title: De Rose (De Rose Hill); Alyawarr (Alyawarr, Kaytetye, Warumungu and Wakay Native Title Claim
- Expert Witness in Land Rights cases: Alcoota Land Claim; Wakay Alyawarr (Repeat) Land Claim; Cobourg Peninsula Land Claim
- 2014-2019: Guest Lecturer, New York University, Sydney campus (2014-19).
- Consultancy work for: Central Land Council (CLC), Northern Land Council (CLC), Kimberley Land Council (KLC), Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC), Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation (AMYAC), Solicitor for the Northern Territory (SFNT), Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Corporation (NT).
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| Dr Kim de Rijke |
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Queensland.
Specific areas of expertise and interest:
Native title claim research and reporting, including expert evidence for the Federal Court, peer reviews, Indigenous Land Use Agreements, cultural heritage/cultural values research, social impact assessment.
Experience
Native title claim research, expert evidence in the Federal Court, joint expert conferences, peer review, research addressing membership disputes and overlapping claims, cultural values studies, research in post-determination settings addressing conflicts about rights in land in the context of mining.
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| Dr Shaun Canning |
Australian Cultural Heritage Management.
Shaun Canning is the primary contact.
- Remote / Regional Work
- Cultural Heritage Management
- Ethnographic Assessments
- Archaeological Assessments
- Impact Assessment
- Cultural Values Assessments
- GIS / Heritage Site Databases
- PBC Advice and Assistance
- Mine Closure
- ILUA Negotiations and Agreement Modernisation
Dr Shaun Canning
Managing Director and Principal Heritage Advisor
Australian Cultural Heritage Management
ADELAIDE | BRISBANE |MELBOURNE | PERTH | SYDNEY
T: 1300 724 913
M: 0400 204 536
E: Shaun.Canning@achm.com.au
W: www.achm.com.au
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| Sean Calderwood (Calderwood the Consultant) |
Experience:
Sean is available for work in the following fields:
- heritage surveys;
- collection of genealogical information;
- collection of family histories;
- site recording;
- cultural mapping;
- archival research;
- assisting on research trips;
- assisting senior anthropologists in research (I have done this with Lee Sackett, Scott Cane and others); and,
Sean has been the male anthropologist on four successful native title determinations (all in WA), two as the sole anthropologist, and a further two with a female anthropologist.
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| Dr Stephen Bennetts |
QUALS
PhD (Anthropology) 2013, University of Western Australia
MA, Applied Linguistics (Regional Languages of Australia and the Pacific), Sydney University, 1993
Fellow Australian Anthropological Society;
Member Anthropological Society of Western Australia
(Detailed professional CV available on request)
I have worked since 1994 in the NT and WA on heritage, ALRA land claim and native title issues for a wide range of organisations including the Central Land Council, Northern Land Council, Ngaanyatjarra Council, Wangka Maya Aboriginal Language Centre, Port Hedland, Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (Alice Springs and Darwin), YMAC, Pilbara Ports Authority
Former co-editor, Indigenous Law Bulletin, UNSW Indigenous Law Centre (1998-2000)
Co-founder, Remembering the 1946 Pilbara Strike
Extensive experience of research and drafting of expert native title claim connection reports in WA and NT under FCA guidelines
Currently teaching applied anthropology course, University of Queensland
Aboriginal languages: conversational knowledge of Pitjantjatjara
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