Qualifications: BA(Hons), MA (Linguistics, LaTrobe University), PhD (University of Melbourne)

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I am currently an ARC QE2 Senior Research Fellow in the School of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) where I am CI in the project 'Doing great things with small languages' (with Rachel Nordlinger), exploring how to create better records of languages in the course of language description. I am also:

Project manager of PARADISEC

Co-Director of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity

Chief Investigator in the EthnoER project (presenting media and text online).

Editor of the journal Language Documentation & Conservation

Secretary of the Australian Linguistic Society.

Career highlights

Establishing the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre (Wangka Maya) after community consultations in the mid-late 1980s and working there until the end of 1990

Building the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (at AIATSIS 1991-1994)

Working at the Vanuatu Cutural Centre and building an electronic catalog of the museum collections (1995-1997)

Being part of the team that built the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and continuing as its Project Manager

Learning the South Efate language, building a corpus of archived material for the language and writing the first grammar that is embedded in a corpus of field recordings

Building Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i's digital ethnographic archive.

In 2009 I was the chair of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation and was on the organising committee for the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation.

Production of EOPAS, a system for presenting interlinear texts and media online

I am working with speakers of South Efate to produce a collection of narratives, and with Warnman speakers (Western Australia) on documentation of their language.

See a brief work history.

See a list of my paper publications.

See a list of my electronic publications

See a list of some training sessions I have run

This is a photo of me at a school on Tanna, southern Vanuatu, with the equivalent of a dunce's cap. The sign says "I must not speak language" and refers to not speaking the local indigenous language at school.