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Frances Morphy, CAEPR Fellow

BSc (Hons) (Anthropology), University College London MPhil (Anthropology), London University MA (Linguistics), The Australian National University E-mail: frances.morphy@anu.edu.au Phone: (02) 6125 4880 Research Interests Selected Publications Resumé

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Research Interests

Frances recently became a full-time Fellow after several years of combining a part-time position at CAEPR with freelance work as an editor and consultant anthropologist and linguist. She is currently the Senior Research Associate on an ARC linkage project, 'Assessing the Quality of the Data and the Enumeration Process: The 2006 Census and Indigenous People in Remote Areas', and is also undertaking a case study for the Indigenous Community Governance project in north-east Arnhem Land, where she has a record of research dating back to the 1970s.

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.

Selected Publications

Arthur, B. and Morphy, F. (eds), 2005. Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Culture and Society through Space and Time, The Macquarie Library, Sydney.

Kral, I. and Morphy, F. 2006 (Forthcoming). 'Language in the NATSISS', in B. Hunter (ed.), Assessing the Evidence on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: A Focus on the 2002 NATSISS, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 26, ANU E Press, Canberra.

Martin, D.F., Morphy, F., Sanders, W.G. and Taylor, J., 2002. Making Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote Aboriginal Australia, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 22, ANU E Press, Canberra.

Morphy, F. 2006. 'Lost in translation? Remote Indigenous households and definitions of the family', Family Matters, 73: 23-31.

Morphy, H. & Morphy, F., 2001. 'The spirit of the plains kangaroo', in T. Bonyhady & T. Griffiths (eds), Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Morphy, H. and Morphy, F. 2006. 'Tasting the waters: discriminating identities in the waters of Blue Mud Bay', Journal of Material Culture, 11 (1/2): 67-85.

Resumé

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.

1978-85 Research assistant, Department of Linguistics, The Australian National University.

1978 Part-time tutor, Department of Linguistics, The Australian National University.

1979-80 On secondment to the Northern Land Council, Darwin for nine months, to assist in the preparation of a land claim.

1973-74 Assistant bibliographer, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.