Email: jrose@relational.net.au

W: www.relational.net.au

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.