


Jo McDonald
Professor Jo McDonald holds the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies. Jo is currently leading two multidisciplinary projects: at Murujuga and between Murujuga and the Western Desert as well as working with several Pilbara Aboriginal communities on rock art collaborations. She sits on the Murujuga Stakeholder Reference Group and Murujuga’s Heritage Committee; is Chair of NSCRAA and is Australia’s representative on ICOMOS’ ISC-CAR.

Joakim Goldhahn
Professor Joakim Goldhahn holds the Rock Art Australia Ian Potter Kimberley Chair. ​​He has conducted research in northern Europe and now conducts research in the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land in Australia with a special interest in Indigenous contact rock art, human-animal relations, a biographical approach to known Aboriginal rock art artists, intergenerational learning, museum collections, bark paintings, and more.

Peter Veth
Professor Peter Veth is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at UWA. His five year project Desert People is working on the archaeology and heritage of communities from Ningaloo, across the Pilbara and into the Western Desert. He is also a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage project From the Desert to the Sea which spans the Pilbara coast and into the remote desert.