Research Interests

The anthropological demography of Australian Aboriginal populations, population structure and dynamics in remote Aboriginal Australia, and the representation of Aboriginal people in the national census. The anthropology and linguistics of the Yolngu-speaking peoples of north east Arnhem Land. Social, cultural and economic aspects of the encapsulation of Aboriginal Australians within the Australian state, in particular the homelands movement, land rights and native title, the governance of Aboriginal community organisations, the impact of colonisation on Indigenous social systems and languages, and problems of cross-cultural ‘translation’.

With CAEPR colleague Bill Arthur, Frances is the co-editor of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia. In an earlier stage of her career she was a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Resumé

2007- Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, the Australian national University

2006 Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.

2005 Part-time Research Fellow (80%) and Academic Editor, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.

2002-03 Part-time Research Fellow (80%) and Academic Editor, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.

2001-02 Half-time Research Fellow and Academic Editor, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.

1999 Visiting Fellow and editor (on a casual basis) at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.

1997-2004 Freelance editorial consultant, freelance anthropological consultant.

1991-97 Commissioning editor, linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

1989-91 Assistant editor, philosophy and linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

1987-89 Research officer (publications), Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, and assistant editor, Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

1987 Temporary lecturer (morphology), University of Oxford.

1986 Part-time tutor in linguistics, Linacre College, Oxford.