Professor Marcia Langton AO is a granddaughter of Yiman and Bidjara people in Queensland where she was born and raised. She is qualified as an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and since 2017, has held the role of Associate Provost.
Associate Professor Maureen Tehan is a Principal Fellow in the Law School at The University of Melbourne. She has been a Chief Investigator on a number of research projects on aspects of negotiation and implementation of agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements with indigenous and local peoples, the property and sustainability elements of competing claims to land and resources and climate change mitigation, forests and Indigenous and tenure. Her broad teaching and research interests include property, indigenous land tenure and cultural heritage. She has extensive experience as a legal advisor and consultant to Aboriginal Land Councils and organisations.
Lisa Palmer is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies.
Kathryn Shain is a Research Fellow in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies.