Consultancy Services
Staff and qualified postgraduates and associates of the Department of Human Geography are able to provide a range of specialist research and training services to industry, government and community organisations at competitive rates. All work is contracted through Access Macquarie on a formal basis, with terms and conditions negotiated on a project basis.
Services available range from small scale data analysis, spatial mapping and peer review services, to major industry studies, impact assessment reports, and regional analyses. Staff with a wide range of expertise are also available for expert panels and other one-off service contracts.
Recent
clients using Human Geography services include:
- Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
- NRMA
- Northern Land Council
- Land Council
- Northern Territory Government
- Ngaanyatjarra Council
- Central land Council
- Cape York Land Council
- Indigenous working Group
- Dome Asia Pacific
- Murrumbidgee Irrigation
- Tinto Ltd
- Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of South Australia
- Northern Sydney Area Health Service
- Anglican Retirement Villages
- Ryde Safe Communities Project
Specialist training programs are also available on request, including curriculum design and delivery services across all aspects of the discipline for industry and community clients. In particular, short courses and training programs are available in the following fields:
- Social impact assessment (both general introductory programs and specialist programs in indigenous SIA)
- GIS applications in industry and community
- Demographic change and local area analysis
- Regional economic development strategies and labour markets
- Understanding electoral statistics
- Heritage management and planning
- Development for change in community and industry
- Electoral behaviour
