THE AHMS TEAM

The AHMS team are professional heritage consultants with honours or equivalent level academic qualifications in archaeology, anthropology, planning and related disciplines.                                                                                              

  • AHMS is well recognised professionally and is included on key Government and Industry professional panels and consultant's lists, including:
  • Defence Environment and Heritage Panel 2009 – 2011 with Connell Wagner Pty Ltd and HBO + EMTB Architects. 
  • Heritage Consultants List - NSW Heritage Branch, Department of Planning.
  • Heritage Consultants List – NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC). 
  • Heritage Consultants List - Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (AAV).
  • Heritage Consultants List – Heritage Victoria. 
  • Pre-Approved Consultant’s Panel – Growth Areas Authority, Victoria.
  • Pre- Approved Consultant’s Panel – VicRoads.
  • Consultant Panels for Transgrid and Energy Australia (NSW).

AHMS is also a corporate Member of Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) and an Associate Member, UDIA (Urban Development Institute of Australia).

Our staff are members of a range of professional and heritage-related bodies including:   

  • Australia ICOMOS
  • Planning Institute of Australia
  • Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology (ASHA)
  • Australian Archaeological Association (AAA)
  • World Archaeological Congress (WAC)
  • Australian Rock Art Research Association 
  • Quaternary Research Association (QRA)

Key staff are current or former members of the Heritage Council of NSW Archaeology and Movable Heritage Advisory Panels and the National Trust (NSW) Industrial Advisory Panel.  Both Directors have lectured on heritage practice and planning or archaeology at Sydney University, UTS and University of New South Wales.

 

Peter Douglas

Director

Over 25 years experience in cultural heritage management in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Specialising in:

  • Aboriginal and historic heritage archaeology
  • Cultural Heritage Management Plans, heritage values identification and impact assessments
  • Archaeological modeling. Site information processes, field methods
  • Human burial site identification, excavation and management

                  

Lisa Newell

Associate Director

Over 25 years experience in Town Planning and cultural resource management in State and local government and the private sector

Specialising in:

  • Town Planning – development assessments and strategic planning especially heritage plans, provisions, overlays, curtilages and DCPs
  • EPBC Act and Commonwealth and Defence heritage sites and management
  • Landscape, archaeological and industrial significance assessments and heritage values identification & impact assessments
  • Conservation Management Plans, heritage portfolio management
  • Historical geography,  community consultation, collections and movable heritage management, policies and guidelines, interpretation, team and quality management 

 

Jim Wheeler

Victorian Manager

14 years experience in Australia and Ireland

Specialising in:

  • Extensive experience in managing a wide range of Aboriginal sites in NSW and Victoria
  • Aboriginal community consultation and mediation  
  • Specialist in developing innovative methodologies for CHMPs and field techniques, survey, sampling and testing strategies, geomorphology, recording, analysis techniques
  • Problem solving and developing impact mitigation options in development context                                

 

MATTHEW KELLY

SENIOR CONSULTANT

22 years experience in Australia and Europe.

Specialising in:

  • Historical archaeology, management planning and excavation direction on State Significant Sites

 

GRAHAM WILSON

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Over 30 years experience in Australia and Norfolk Island.

Specialising in:

  • Historical archaeology, geo-archaeology, finds, excavation direction and excavation  techniques

 

ALAN WILLIAMS

SENIOR CONSULTANT

12 years experience in Australia, South America and Europe.

Specialising in:

  • Aboriginal archaeology, palaeoclimatology, geomorphology, geochronology

 

FELICITY BARRY

CONSULTANT

10 years experience in Australia.

Specialising in:

  • Aboriginal and historical archaeology, stone artefact analysis and survey techniques
  • Experience in historical heritage Management

                                               

LAURA MATERESE

CONSULTANT

4 years experience in Australia and Asia.

Specialising in:

  • Aboriginal and historic archaeology
  • GIS (Geographic Information Systems) 

  

ALISON O'CONNOR

CONSULTANT

Broad Victorian experience in Aboriginal and historical Archaeology - archaeological assessments, impact assessments, formal excavation, and field surveys

Specialising in:

  • Historical and Indigenous research in general, and specifically in research, fieldwork associated with completing CHMP’s under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 (VIC)

                                                   

SAMANTHA BOLTON

CONSULTANT

Experience in Australia, Europe, Africa and Asia. Recently completed a PhD at University of Western Australia and is currently studying a Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Science at Curtin University.

Specialising in:

  • Historical archaeology
  • Aboriginal archaeology (particularly within Western Australia)
  • GIS (Geographic Information Systems)  

 

ADAM PATERSON

CONSULTANT

Currently based in Adelaide, where he is a PhD candidate in historical heritage management at Flinders University. He is supported in this venture by an Australian Research Council scholarship, in addition to industry partnerships with AHMS and a range of other stakeholder groups with interests in the outcome of his research work.

In addition to his PhD studies Adam remains a member of the AHMS team.