I am a licensed cadastral surveyor with over 30 years’ experience and have a Masters qualification in Town Planning. I am the director of Musgrave-Evans and Gilbert Consulting P/L, a private surveying and town planning practice in Central Victoria I was also a Member of the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria (SRBV) for 12 years (2008-2019).
My role on the SRBV included the chairing of the Professional Practice Interview Panels for the examination of candidates. I also examined and moderated the Rural Cadastral Project and the Professional Assessment (land development) Project. Further, I developed an initiative to run workshops to assist candidates with their education and training and project submissions.
Furthermore, in 2018 I entered into a Professional Training Agreement as the Supervising Surveyor to my son Cory Gilbert. Cory successfully completed his training and was registered as a Licensed Surveyor in November 2022.
I was engaged by the University of Melbourne in 2017 to develop the curriculum, deliver and assess the Residential Land Development course. I continued to teach that course for 5 years. I was also engaged as a sessional lecturer by RMIT at that time to develop and deliver some of the content of the Cadastral Surveying Courses.
In 2021, I was engaged by RMIT in a permanent position as the course co-ordinator for the two third year Cadastral Surveying courses. In that position, I completely redeveloped the curriculum, form of delivery and assessment of these courses. The teaching methodologies that I developed were very successful with the students. This was reflected in their assessment results as well as the formal student satisfaction survey feedback to the University. I consistently scored highly in these surveys, with feedback placing me second in the whole of the School of Science.
I finished up teaching at RMIT at the end of 2023, returning to my surveying business full time. However, I am certainly still very passionate about surveying education. I am very interested in the influence that changing surveying and spatial technologies might have on the way surveying graduates are prepared for the future needs of the surveying profession and more particularly on our cadastral system.
I have been the recipient of the following awards during my career:
• Sesquicentennial Award for Services Above and Beyond the Duty of Membership
– Institution of Surveyors Victoria - 2024
• Peter Tyrell Award – for Sustained and Exceptional Contribution to the Surveying Profession - Consulting Surveyors Victoria - 2023
• Certificate of Appreciation – for Distinguished Service to Cadastral Surveying as a Licensed Surveyor Member of
the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria - 2019
• Elevated to Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors Victoria, 2018
• SSSI Excellence in Cadastral Surveying Award – 2017
• The President’s Award - for Leadership and Exceptional Service to the Institution of Surveyors Victoria and the
advancement of the Profession of Surveying, 2012
• W.E. Thompson Memorial Prize – Best Final Year Surveying Student, 1989
