Consultancy

My consultancy work reflects my research interests in water and human-environmental relations, and my reflexive work on interdisciplinarity. Many consultancy activities bring these areas of interest together.

Key areas of expertise include

Advice on cultural engagements with water, for the water sector and for national and international governments and non-governmental organisations.
Expertise in facilitating and evaluating interdisciplinary research, including the design and conduct of interdisciplinary research projects and training in interdisciplinary engagement.
Support for legal cases addressing indigenous rights to land and water.

Consultancy activities

2022 Independent Expert Anthropologist in the matter of VID3062022: Dennis Murphy Tipakalippa (Applicant) v National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) and Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (Santos).

2021- Appointment to International Advisory Board, New Institute for Environmental Humanities (NICHCE) Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.

2020- Independent expert advice. Bid for World Heritage status for Mahasthan, Karatoya River, Bangladesh. UNESCO, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

2020- Independent Expert, advice on interdisciplinarity, Technopolis Group, with Ipsos MORI, Science Metrix, CECAN Ltd.

2019 Review of Peter Wall Institute, University of British Colombia.

2019- Advisory role, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS), University of Uppsala.

2019- Project development advice, Affinity Water.

2017- Advisory role, DELTA - Volatile Waters and the Hydrosocial Anthropocene in Major River Deltas, University of Cologne.

2016-17. Consultancy, UN High Level Panel on Water, to develop new UN Principles for Water. Background paper and collaboration on Preamble and Draft Principles.

2014- Advisory role. Naryn-Syr Darya Project. The Social Life of a River, Germany, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan. Tübingen University.

2009-12 Legal consultancy, water rights. New Zealand. Advisory report for Māori Council in a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal ‘in respect of Māori proprietal interests and rights to access and use of water and geothermal resources’ (Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975). Expert advice in case progression through the High Court and the Supreme Court. (WAI 2357, 2358). Outcomes: compensation and co-managerial arrangements.

2008-10 Steering Committee, UNESCO International Ecohydrology Programme.

2006-8 Scientific Advisory Committee, UNESCO International EcohydrologyProgramme

2005 Expert advisory panel, Brisbane RiverFestival

1991-2014 Legal consultancy, land rights. Australia. Kowanyama Aboriginal Community: assistance with strategic plan (1994). Cultural mapping and local training (1991-2008) supporting claims under the Queensland Aboriginal Land Act 1991 and the Native Title Act 1993.

OTHER FORMS OF CONSULTANCY

Like many academics I assess grant proposals for funding councils and review book proposals and submitted manuscripts for publishers and journals. I also assist other Universities in relation to individual appointments and promotions. Here’s a list of the institutions for which I have provided reviews and reports.

Reviews, referee reports for institutions

University of British Colombia.

Arts and Humanities Research Council UK

Australian Research Council

Belgian Research Council/University of Leuven

British Academy

Cambridge University

Canada Research Council

Central European University

Copenhagen University

Danish Council for Independent Research in the Humanities

Deakin University

Department for International Development, UK

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

Dutch Research Council

Economic and Social Research Council, UK

Einstein Foundation

Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

European Research Council

European Science Foundation

George Mason University

Huntington Library

Institut d’Études Advancées de Paris

Institute of Historical Research

Irish Research Council

James Cook University

Lancaster University

Leeds Trinity University

Leverhulme Trust, UK

Manchester University

Marsden Fund, New Zealand

Mason Durie Fellowship Programme

National Science Foundation, USA

Newcastle University

New Zealand National Performance Review (PBRF)

Northumbria University

Ohio State University

Oxford University

Queensland University

Rachel Carson Centre

Royal Society of New Zealand, Te Apārangi

Rutherford Fellowship Programme

Uppsala Institute of Advanced Study

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada

Southern Methodist University

Swiss National Science Foundation

UK National Commission for UNESCO/UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Programme

University of Aberdeen

University of British Colombia

University of Queensland

University of Western Australia

Warburg Institute

Referee Reports, Publishers

Australian National University Press

Asia Pacific Monographs

Ashgate Press

Berg Publishers

Berghahn Publishers

Bloomsbury Press

Cambridge University Press

Earthscan

Equinox

International Water Resources Association

John Wiley

Johns Hopkins University Press

New York University Press

Oxford University Press

Palgrave Macmillan

Pearson Education

Pluto Press

Royal Geographic Society

Routledge Publishers

Sage

Taylor and Francis

University of British Colombia Press

University College London Press

University of Technology Sydney E-Press

Referee Reports, Journals

Aboriginal History

American Ethnologist

Anthropologica

Anthropological Forum

Anthropologie et Sociétés

Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History

Archaeological Dialogues

Australian Religion Studies

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Critique of Anthropology

Culture and Religion

Current Anthropology

Dialectical Anthropology

Ecosystems

Energy Policy

Environmental Values

Ethnologia Fennica

Ethnos

Freshwater Biology

Global Environmental Change

History and Anthropology

Human Organisation: Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

International Journal of Water Governance

Journal of Consumer Culture

Journal of Material Culture

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

La Ricerca Folklorica

Leadership Foundation

Oceania

Palgrave Communications

Science, Technology and Human Values

Social Alternatives

Social Anthropology

Society and Space

Sustainable Development

Sustainability Science

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

The Journal of the Anthropology Society, Oxford

The Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Water Alternatives

Water History

Water International

Water Policy

WIRES, Water

Worldviews