Category Archives: Consultants

Email: virginie.branchut@gmail.com

M: 0405 309 274.

Skills:

• Native title research
• Community mediation
• Workplace mediation
• Collaborative design
• Organisational change and development facilitation

My research skill include:

• Fieldwork & documentary/archival research
• Consultation with Aboriginal groups on various matters
• Native title research
• Sacred Site research
• Sacred site recording and documentation in the field and in databases
• Anthropological report writing and reviewing
• Governance research
• Field/community-based project management and coordination
• Compiling genealogies and other relevant cultural information relating to connection of people to country
• Experience living in remote communities of Arnhem Land

Email: tim.pilbrow@socialcontext.com.au

M: 0432 972 188

Tim is an accredited mediator and internationally-experienced anthropologist, with a research background in the ethnography of collective identities and the socially integrative dimensions of conflict and dispute. He has been actively engaged in native title research in Victoria since 2006, as an employee of First Nations Legal & Research Services (2006-2018) and through his consultancy, Social Context (since 2019).

Tim has experience bringing anthropological insights to the development of decision-making structures and processes for Traditional Owner corporations that reflect Traditional Owners’ existing practices. Through this work Tim has gained experience in mediating the interests, views and practices of differently situated parties.

Tim has a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology (New York University), and BA Honours in languages and linguistics (Monash University). Tim has published book chapters and journal articles on native title anthropology, social change, and the anthropology of conflict. Tim is a fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society since 2006, including a stint as President (2024-2025).

Tim’s mediation and facilitation skills draw on his training in Transformative Mediation, Deep Democracy facilitation, User Experience Design, and the collaborative action methods of Strategic Doing. He has been accredited as a mediator under the Australian national mediation standards (AMDRAS) since 2014.

Email: padottin@icloud.com

M: 0402 446 330

Profession:

I am a consultant anthropologist who conducts ethnographic and social surroundings surveys in South Australia and Western Australia. I am interested also in Native Title claims and determination, Aboriginal / Proponent agreements, and Culture-loss compensation.

Professional Strength:

Advanced Interdisciplinary Reasoning
Expertise in anthropology, ethnic studies, and sociology. Competence in philosophy and psychology. Ongoing graduate diploma training in archaeology and heritage management.

Excellent Social Intelligence
Advanced emotional awareness, regulation and interpersonal engagement skills. Extensive formal training in meditation, yoga and breathing techniques honed through work with incarcerated youth and adults.

Professional Experience:

• Conducted Ethnographic surveys and Social Surroundings surveys for Australian Native Title organizations and Cultural Heritage Management companies.
• Extended ethnographic studies of racial/ethnic minority groups in China and the United States.
• Month-long professional development internship at a Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) in that sector’s approaches to genealogical research, fieldnote recording, social surroundings assessment, modern geo-referencing of maps drawn by early anthropologists, analysis of connection / ethnographic / and archaeological heritage reports, culture-loss impacts and compensation schemes, land and sea management practices aligned to Caring for Country principles.

Qualifications:

PhD in Comparative Studies (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
MA in Anthropology (UC Berkeley, USA)
MA in Ethnic Studies (UC Berkeley, USA)
BA in Sociology (Binghamton University, USA)
Graduate Diploma in Archaeology and Heritage Management (Flinders University. In Progress)

Website: dortchcuthbert.com.au

Address: PO Box 30, Fremantle, 6959

ABN: 25 128 976 205

Principal Anthropologist: Dirima Cuthbert, dirima@dortchcuthbert.com.au, 0409 178 797

Principal Archaeologist: Joe Dortch, joe@dortchcuthbert.com.au, 0428 601 008

Summary of Experience:

Dirima Cuthbert (MEnvDes; BEnvDes; BSc (Hons. Anthropology)) is an experienced anthropologist and environmental designer, having worked with First Peoples since 1996. Her cross-disciplinary approach is useful in revealing and regenerating connections between people and places. Dirima is Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, a Professional and committee member of the Anthropological Society of Western Australia and a member of the Australian Anthropological Society.

Joe Dortch (PhD, Archaeology, BA (Hons. Archaeology)) has worked with Traditional Owners across Western Australia since 1992. Joe is a leading archaeological researcher, having produced over 60 peer-reviewed publications with Indigenous and academic collaborators. Specialty areas include environmental archaeology and heritage management plans. He is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, a Research Associate at the Western Australian Museum, a Full Member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. and committee member of the Australian Archaeological Association.

Together, Joe and Dirima have completed hundreds of projects across Western Australia, with demonstrated capability in engaging and maintaining relationships with Traditional Owners, Native Title parties, proponents and others.

Skills:

• Social Surroundings Assessments under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA);
• Heritage Surveys under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA);
• Cultural Heritage Management Plans;
• Cultural Landscape Mapping;
• Interpretation, signage and displays to communicate and celebrate cultural heritage;
• Planning to anticipate impacts to or opportunities for cultural heritage in the future, taking into account climate change for example;
• Workshop facilitation to bring Traditional Owners, proponents and others together in the design and implementation of a project;
• Environmental design for landscaping and architectural responses attuned to people and places.

Email: glanthropology@gmail.com

M: 0428 810 589

Website: www.glanthropology.com/

Summary of Experience and Skills:

Experience:

• 27 years of applied anthropological experience working predominately across the Northern Territory.
• 10 years as a senior consultant and expert preceded by senior anthropologist roles at the Northern Land Council and Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority.

Skills:

• Northern Territory Land Rights Act Land Claims: field research and documentation of rights and interest in land along with expert witness testimony in successful claims including Kakadu, Peron Islands and Cobourg.
• Native title: field research and documentation of native title rights and interest in land, expert connection reports and resource ‘rights to use’ reporting in successful and ongoing claims around the Pine Creek region and with the Central Land Council for Eastern Arrernte people.
• Sacred site and cultural heritage management: sacred site mapping, documentation surveys, management planning, including investigative research for prosecutions.
• Community engagement, agreement making and site surveys for major mineral and petroleum exploration, production and rehabilitation projects under provisions of both the NT Land Rights and Native Title legislation – experience on major projects ranging across Ranger, Jabiluka, Koongarra, Rum Jungle, McArthur River, Coronation Hill, Redbank and the Beetaloo Sub-Basin.
• Social, Cultural and Economic baseline impact assessment work in and around the Beetaloo Sub-Basin with the University of Queensland as part of the Strategic Regional Environmental Baseline Assessment recommended by the Scientific Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory.
• Community engagement for Parks joint management and co-management arrangements in Commonwealth and Northern Territory Parks and reserves, inclusive of Kakadu.
• Community based research projects for indigenous corporations inclusive of dispute management, arbitration and agreement making.