Recent work history
2009 - ARC QEII Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
2008 - Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Ongoing - Project Manager for PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) an ARC LIEF project run by a consortium of Sydney University, ANU and Melbourne University which has established an archive of digitised material on languages of the Pacific, PNG and Indonesia.
Ongoing - Technical editor for the journal Language Documentation and Conservation
From 2004-2007 - ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics at the the University of Melbourne.
I managed the ARC project Ethnographic Eresearch, a collaborative research project working on online annotation of complex linguistic data.
I have been a consultant on linguistic issues, including Native Title (see for example the judgment in the Ngarluma-Yindjibarndi case, or the judgment in the Single Noongar claim, or Bennell v State of Western Australia [2006] FCA 1243 (19 September 2006)) and computer-based linguistic tools (see the CALW).
From 1995 to 1997 I lived in Vanuatu and worked at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and also helped manage the Pactok e-mail system.
1991-1994 Visiting Research Fellow, Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) an Australian government statutory authority where I also ran the AIATSIS Aboriginal Dictionaries Project.
1987 - 1990 Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre linguist/co-ordinator in Port Hedland, Western Australia.
1985 - 1986 Linguistic project officer with the Institute of Applied Aboriginal Studies (IAAS), Mt.Lawley Campus of WACAE (now Edith Cowan University).
Professional Affiliations
Co-convenor of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Member of the Australian Linguistic Society
Member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages
Member of the Linguistic Society of America