Career Summary | Qualifications | Achievements and Awards | Professional Activities
| 2005- | Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
ARC and other outside funding for projects in Aboriginal music and digital archiving. |
| 2001-2004 | Senior Research Fellow, Music Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney
ARC funding for projects in Aboriginal music and digital archiving. |
| 1998-2000 | Freelance Research Consultant
clients include Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation, Goldfields Land Council, University of Sydney, Spinifex Press, Festival Records. |
| 1997 | Senior Research Fellow, Music Department,
University of Sydney
Australian Research Council funding for project on Aboriginal music. |
| 1995-6 | Research Fellow, Music Department, University
of Hong Kong
HK Research Grants Committee funding for Aboriginal music project |
| 1995 | Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, University
of Sydney (January - April)
Australian Research Council funding for projects on Aboriginal & Italian music |
| 1994 | Temporary Lecturer in Ethnomusicology,
University
of Hong Kong
(Sept - Dec) |
| 1991-4 | Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, University
of Sydney (till August)
Australian Research Council funding for projects on Aboriginal and Italian music |
| 1990 | Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, University
of New England
Australian Research Council funding for projects on Aboriginal music |
| 1988-89 | National Research Fellow, University of New
England
Australian Research Grants Council funding, working with Prof. Catherine Ellis on Aboriginal music |
| 1986-7 | Research Associate, University of New
England
Australian Research Grants Scheme funding, working with Prof. Catherine Ellis on Central Australian Style Aboriginal music |
Career Summary | Achievements and Awards | Professional Activities
| 1986 | PhD, Flinders University (Supervisors Antonio Comin, Italian Discipline, Flinders - linguistics; and Catherine Ellis, Faculty of Music, University of Adelaide - musicology). Thesis topic on traditional Italian narrative song. |
| 1980 | BA (Hons), Flinders University of South Australia. Majors in French and Italian. Degree awarded with first-class honours and the University Medal. |
| 1972 | Matriculation, Campbelltown High School, South Australia |
Competitive Research Grants Won | Academic Awards
| 2005-6 | Grangenet Project Grant 'Sustainability of distributed and federated data sets in the humanities: PARADISEC.' ($150,000 over 2 years). |
| 2005-6 | Collaborator with Nicholas Thieberger and others on ARC Special Research Initiative E-research grant 'Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high-speed networks.' ($100,000 over 2 years). |
| 2005-6 | Collaborator with Steve Cassidy and others on ARC Special Research Initiative E-research grant 'Distributed access and data annotation for the Human Communication Sciences' ($100,000 over 2 years). |
| 2005 | Collaborator with Allan Marett and others on ARC Linkage Project grant 'Planning for sustainability of the National Recording Project on Indigenous Music in Australia' ($48,871). |
| 2005 | Collaborator with Allan Marett and others on ARC Linkage Project grant 'Planning for sustainability of the National Recording Project on Indigenous Music in Australia' ($48,871). |
| 2005 | Collaborator with Allan Marett and others on ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Grant 'PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: Accessibility and Decentralisation.' ($325,873). |
| 2005-6 | Collaborator with Ian Johnson and others on University of Sydney College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Cluster grant 'Sydney Humanities and Social Sciences E-Research Initiative.' ($45,000 over 2 years). |
| 2005-6 | Collaborator with Nicholas Thieberger and researchers from LACITO archive, CNRS (Paris) on French Australian Science and Technology Program grant 'Standardised methods for archiving and describing research recordings.' ($5,800). |
| 2001-3 | Collaborator with Professor Allan Marett on ARC Large Grant 'An ethnomusicological study of Lirrga, a genre of Australian Aboriginal song from NW Australia.' ($244,150 over 3 years). |
| 2000 | Associate Chief Investigator (with Dr Jane Simpson and others) on ARC Large Grant 'Kaytetye, Ngardi and Warumungu: effective representation of word meaning in Aboriginal languages' ($50,500 in 2000) |
| 1997-9 | Chief Investigator (with Professor Allan Marett) on ARC Large Grant 'Public performance genres of the northern and eastern Kimberleys' ($135,000) |
| 1996 | Chief Investigator, University of Hong Kong Committee for Research and Conference Grants, 'Documentation of lirrga and wangga, two genres of North Australian Aboriginal music' ($HK36,000 = approx. $AU6,000) |
| 1995-6 | Chief Investigator (with Professor Allan Marett), Research Grants Council (HK), 'An analytical study of lirrga, an orally-composed genre of Aboriginal music from northwest Australia' ($HK438,000 = approx. $AU73,000) |
| 1995 | Alfred White Bequest grant for work on Cath Ellis collection ($800) |
| 1994-5 | Chief Investigator, ARC Institutional Grant: 'Performance-Based Investigation of Komedya Popular Music Theatre in the Philippines' ($14,000) |
| 1993-5 | Chief Investigator, ARC Large Grant: 'Sung Popular Theatre in Tuscany and the Australasian region' ($60,000) |
| 1993-4 | Responsible for finalisation of Ray Keogh's ARC Institutional Grant: 'West Kimberleys Music', following Dr Keogh's death in April 1993 ($12,000) |
| 1992 | Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Large Grant (Pilot): 'Music of the Maggio' ($22,300) |
| 1991 | University of Sydney Special Research Grant ($3,000) |
| 1991-5 | Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council, for work on Aboriginal and Italian music ($348,154) |
| 1990 | University of New England Internal Research Grant ($2,500) |
| 1989 | University of Sydney, for work on Aboriginal music project ($2,500) |
| 1988-9 | National Research Fellowship for work on Aboriginal music ($60,417) |
| 1988 | Alfred White Bequest grant ($1,000) |
| 1987 | Australian Research Grants Committee Research Associateship for work on Aboriginal music ($27,121) |
Academic Awards | Competitive Research Grants Won
| 1984 | Australian Federation of University Women Barbara Crase Bursary (for research in Canada) |
| 1984 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Bursary |
| 1983 | Flinders University Travelling Fellowship and Amy Forwood Travel Award, used for research in Pisa, June-August 1984 |
| 1982 | Italian Government Scholarship |
| 1981-5 | Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award |
| 1980 | First Class Honours and University Medal |
| 1979 | Alitalia Airlines Award used for two months' research in Italy for Honours dissertation |
| 1977 | Elisa Gentilli Medal for the best student of Italian |
| 1973 | Commonwealth Tertiary Scholarship |
Membership of Professional Organisations
| 2005 | Elected member of the DoBES Steering Committee | 2004-8 | Participant in the ARC-funded Human Communication Science Research Network |
| 2004- | Member of Management Group, Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching |
| 2003- | Director, Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures |
| 1997 | University of Sydney delegate to the National Tertiary Symposium on Research in the Performing Arts (Melbourne, April) |
| 1997- | Invited member of the Editorial Board, The World of Music (international ethnomusicology journal edited by Max-Peter Baumann, Bamberg, Germany) |
| 1996-7 | Consultant ethnomusicologist, Northern Land Council (Kenbi land claim) |
| 1996 | Occasional reviewer, UNESCO CD series |
| 1995-7 | Editorial consultant and reader of Aboriginal music entries in the Oceania volume of the Encyclopedia of World Music (New York: Garland), edited by Adrienne Kaeppler and Jacob Wainwright Love (Smithsonian Institution, Washington) |
| 1995- | Member of Editorial Board, Perfect Beat (Popular Music journal) |
| 1995 | Member of Quality Review Team to assess Music Department, University of New England |
| 1993-5 | Program committee, 1995 World Conference of the ICTM |
| 1993-6 | Editorial Board, Oxford Companion to Australian Music edited by W. Bebbington |
| 1992 | Convenor, Aboriginal Music session, 15th National Conference of the MSA, Sydney |
| 1991 | Co-convenor, Seminar on Aboriginal Song Texts, Sydney Chapter of the MSA |
| 1990 | Co-convenor, Seminar on Analysis of Aboriginal Music, Sydney Chapter of the MSA |
| 1990-91 | National Committee member, MSA |
| 1989 | Co-organiser, 12th National Conference of the MSA, Armidale, September |
| 1988-89 | National Secretary of the Musicological Society of Australia |
| 1987 | Co-organiser, Popular Music Seminar, Armidale, October |
Career Summary | Qualifications | Achievements and Awards | Professional Activities