Geoff Buchanan

Project Officer
Native Title Research Unit

Contact: geoff.buchanan@aiatsis.gov.au

Geoff is a Project Officer with the NTRU. He has a background in environmental science, policy and economics as well as Indigenous Australian Studies. He has had an ongoing involvement in research relating to Indigenous natural and cultural resource management and economic development for over a decade. In 2004, he joined the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University where he is currently completing a PhD in Anthropology exploring the economic development of Indigenous land and sea management drawing on fieldwork undertaken with two Aboriginal ranger groups. While working at CAEPR he was involved in a number of research projects exploring the environmental, social and economic significance of the Indigenous estate, caring for country and the customary sector of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community economies. Geoff joined the NTRU at the start of 2013 to assist with research and resources relating to Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs) and joint management and conservation areas.