Claire Stacey

Project Manager/Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC) Project Officer
Native Title Research Unit

Contact: claire.stacey@aiatsis.gov.au

Claire Stacey is a Project Manager in the Native Title Research Unit. Claire has a background in community development and anthropology and has recent completed a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development at the Australian National University focusing on Indigenous community development and public policy. Claire has worked in the private, not-for-profit and government sectors, and has experience working on community development projects in both urban and remote areas of Australia, as well as internationally. Claire has worked at AIATSIS since 2010 across a number of research projects focused on the post determination landscape for native title holders, including joint management, caring for country, community development and housing. Claire is now working with traditional owners through the PBC Support Project, which aims to support the growing number of native title holders to manage their traditional land and waters.

Current Research Focus

• Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBC) Support Project
• PBC capacity building in effective decision making and conflict resolution processes/frameworks, negotiation skills, agreement making, strategic planning and governance
• Indigenous institutions and climate change adaptation
• Community development in the post-determination environment
  

Research, publications and presentations

Bauman, T. Stacey, C. and Lauder, G., ‘Joint management of protected areas in Australia: Native title and other pathways towards a community of practice’ 2.69Mb, Workshop report, AIATSIS Research Publications, August 2012.

Bauman, T. and Stacey, C. 2012 (forthcoming), ‘Agreement-making and free, prior and informed consent in the Australian native title landscape’, Pacific-Asian Partnerships in Resource Development, Divine Word University Press, Madang.

Sullivan, P. and Stacey, C. 2012. Whole of Government Approach to Sustainable Livelihoods, research report to the Northern Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.

Bauman, T., Cooms, V. and Stacey, C. 2011. AIATSIS Submission to the QPWS Master Plan for Protected Areas, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.

Stacey, C. ‘Joint management workshop at the 2011 National Native Title Conference: What helps? What harms?’ 88Kb, Native Title Newsletter Number 4/11 (July-August 2011), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, p.4.

Weir, J., Stacey, C. and Youngentob, K., 2011. The benefits of caring for country, a review of the literature, provided to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra.

Stacey, C. and Fardin J., 2011. Housing on native title lands: responses to the housing amendments of the native title act, Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, 4(6): 1-12. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.