Your research team
Tandi Palmer Williams
Managing Director
Patternmakers’ Founder and Managing Director Tandi Palmer Williams is an experienced consultant, author and speaker on the role of research in cultural institutions.
She is a highly collaborative arts leader, with a clear communication style and focus on finding solutions.
An accredited Qualified Professional Researcher (QPR), Tandi was previously Research Manager for the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts in England, Research Manager for the Australia Council for the Arts and Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Bianca Mulet
Senior Research Analyst
Bianca is our Senior Research Analysist. She is experienced in quantitative and qualitative methodologies and is project manager for our research projects.
She works as project manager on the COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor in Australia and has delivered projects for the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Australia Council for the Arts.
Having studied social and political sciences, her skills combine rigorous analytical skills and creative thinking.
Jodie Bombardier
Operations Manager
Jodie works behind the scenes to keep Patternmakers running like a well-oiled machine.
She has local and international experience planning and delivering events across a range of industries, and brings her systems-mind and attention to detail to the operations of the organisation.
Having first joined Patternmakers as Business Administrator, Jodie since became Operations Manager, making the most of her extensive background in events management and business operations. She has delivered large-scale fieldwork plans in regional Australia, along with ongoing management of our ‘books’ and project performance.
Aurora Nowosad
Project Administrator
Aurora is Patternmakers' Project Administrator. She has expertise in coordinating research projects, writing case studies and producing Patternmakers podcast, Theory of Creativity.
She has a Master of Design and Bachelor of Architecture (Allied Arts) and brings broad professional experience working in Australia as a Research Strategist for a variety of strategic consultancy and design-based architectural studios.
She also has experience in audience research and engagement as part of the Market and Insight Team at Sydney Living Museums. Aurora has also previously worked in a Children’s Museum, as a set designer and properties assistant in multiple theatre companies across the USA.