ATNS - Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements project

Chief Investigators

	Professor Marcia Langton Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health The University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 8344 9156 Email: m.langton@unimelb.edu.au Professor Langton is the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at The University of Melbourne. She was the founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous, Natural and Cultural Resource Management and the Ranger Chair of Aboriginal Studies at the Northern Territory University. Professor Langton is a specialist in Aboriginal land tenure and resource issues with a research and publication track record in native title, land rights and Aboriginal resource rights.
	Professor Lee Godden (Resigned) Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law School of Law The University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 8344 1109 Email: lcgodden@unimelb.edu.au Professor Godden is the Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law within the Law School. Prior to that Godden held a joint appointment as Director of the Office for Environmental Programs. Godden has a strong research reputation and publication record in interdisciplinary law research, with a focus on analyses that explore the intersections between indigenous land and resource management with western property, environmental and resource laws. Professor Godden has resigned from the project to undertake a position as lead Commissioner with the Australian Law Reform's Native Title Inquiry.
	Professor Miranda Stewart Director, Taxation Studies Program School of Law The University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 8344 6544 Email: m.stewart@unimelb.edu.au Professor Stewart is a leading scholar in the field of tax law and policy. Stewart's most significant contribution to this research field is a sustained policy critique of the design of business tax rules, combined with a theoretical and empirical analysis of tax reform for economic development. Stewart brings a strong comparative perspective to research on business tax, and has expertise on tax incentives for entrepreneurialism, investment and taxation of business assets.
	Professor Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Griffith Business School Griffith University Tel: +61 7 3735 7736 Email: ciaran.ofaircheallaigh@griffith.edu.au Professor O'Faircheallaigh is with the Business School at Griffith University. He has made significant contributions to research on the interrelationship between indigenous peoples and resource development, as well as the implementation and evaluation of policies affecting Indigenous Australians. His work has included documenting, evaluating and explaining outcomes from Aboriginal-mining company negotiations, and developing the first framework for systematically analysing negotiation outcomes.
	Dr Lisa Strelein Director, Research Programs and Native Title Native Title Research Unit Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Tel: +61 2 62461155 Email: lisa.strelein@aiatsis.gov.au Dr Strelein is the Director of the Native Title Research Unit and the Director of Research programs at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Her research over the last 18 years has focused on indigenous empowerment and autonomy within Australian law and policy. Strelein joins the ATNS Project as a Partner Investigator.
	Professor John Taylor (Retired) Visiting Fellow Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research The Australian National University Tel: +61 2 6125 0052 Email: j.taylor@anu.edu.au Professor Taylor is a visiting fellow at Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University. Taylor has been the principal social scientist in Australia to have analysed and charted the course of indigenous demographic transitions. He has established a prominent role for regional demographic analysis in the formulation of indigenous affairs policy. Professor Taylor was Director of CAEPR from 2010-2013 and retired in 2013 as Director. Professor Taylor also withdrew from the ATNS Project with Professor Matthew Gray replacing him as Chief Investigator.
	Associate Professor Maureen Tehan Associate Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law School of Law The University of Melbourne Tel: +61 3 8344 6205 Email: m.tehan@unimelb.edu.au Associate Professor Tehan is the Associate Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and former Undergraduate Dean of the Law School at the University of Melbourne. Assoc Prof Tehan's academic work has included a conceptual and practical synthesis of Indigenous peoples' land relationships and the settler legal system.
	Professor Matthew Gray Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research The Australian National University Tel: +61 2 6125 8265 Email: matthew.gray@anu.edu.au Professor Gray is the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. He was previously the Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies and has published research on a wide range of social and economic policy issues including those related to Indigenous Australians. Professor Gray has extensive experience in evaluating major government policies and programs including a major evaluation of the 2006 changes to the family law system, the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy, Case Coordination and income management in the Northern Territory.