Professor EmeritusLinda Barwick

I am not currently accepting new postgraduate students. Please see the Postgraduate Research and Admission page for enquiries for vacancies with other researchers in our Music Diversity Lab. 

Past postgraduate student completions

Jodie Kell (PhD, 2025), "The Ripple Effect of the first all-women’s band from West Arnhem Land" (lead supervisor Myfany Turpin, with Jade O'Regan and Clint Bracknell)

Markos Koumoulas (PhD, 2025), "The ancient voice of the future: reawakening Wamin song and language through the didjeridu" (lead supervisor Myfany Turpin)

Niall Edwards-Fitzsimons (PhD, 2024), "Kekompakan [Cohesiveness]: Togetherness and Entrainment in the Sitting Dances of Aceh, Indonesia" (lead supervisor Charles Fairchild)

Llew Kiek (DMA, 2021) “An insight into the appropriation of European musical signifiers in the Rahbani Brothers' Lebanese music-theatre works” (lead supervisor Anna Reid, co-supervision Anne Boyd)

Jonathan Potskin (Sydney) (PhD, 2020), "Australian, Canadian and New Zealand's Indigenous youth and the cultural connections through rap music" (research supervisor Catriona Elder and co-supervisors Jakelin Troy and Clint Bracknell)

Anthony Linden Jones (Sydney) (PhD, 2019), "Themes of signification: representing Aboriginality in Australian film music, 1930 to 1970" (co-supervision with James Wierzbicki and Kathleen Nelson)

Chloe Chung (Sydney), (M.Mus(Perf), 2018), "The Living Dizi Tradition inside and outside of China" (co-supervision with Catherine Ingram)

Reuben Brown (Sydney) (PhD, 2016), "The performance of kun-borrk, an Aboriginal song and dance tradition of western Arnhem Land, and its role in contemporary life at Goulburn Island and Kunbarlanja, Northern Territory." (co-supervision with Paul Dwyer and Martin Thomas)

Isabel O'Keeffe (U. Melbourne) (PhD, 2016), "Kun-barlang songs of NW Arnhem Land in their multilingual context" (co-supervision with Rachel Nordlinger)

Elena Andersen (Sydney) (MA, 2015), "Development of a Paakantyi Teaching Grammar" (co-supervision with Michael Walsh)

John Mansfield (ANU) (PhD, 2014) "Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: the language and culture of young Murrinh Patha men" (external supervisor with Jane Simpson, ANU, and Michael Walsh, Sydney)

Genevieve Campbell (Sydney) (PhD, 2014) "Ngarukuruwala - we sing: the songs of the Tiwi Islands, northern Australia" (co-supervision with Sally Treloyn)

Adam Paliwala (Sydney) (PhD, 2012) "Creole/superstrate code-switching: Analysing the dynamic relationship between Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea" (co-supervision with Jane Simpson and Michael Walsh)

Joe Blythe (Sydney) (PhD, 2009) "Doing referring in Murriny Patha conversation" (co-supervision with Jane Simpson and Michael Walsh)

Sally Treloyn (Sydney) (PhD, 2006). "Songs that pull: jadmi junba from the Kimberley region of northwest Australia" (co-supervision with Allan Marett)

Myfany Turpin (Sydney) (PhD, 2005). "Form and meaning of Akwelye: a Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia" (lead supervisor Jane Simpson)

Kathryn Marsh (Sydney) (PhD, 1998). "Processes of variation in oral transmission of children's playground games in Sydney" (lead supervisor)

Margaret Gummow (Sydney) (PhD, 1994). "Bundjalung and Gidabal music from Northern NSW" (lead supervisor Allan Marett)

Greg Anderson (Sydney) (PhD, 1993) "Murlarra: a clan song series from Central Arnhem Land" (lead supervisor Allan Marett)

Ray Keogh (Sydney) (PhD, 1991) "Nurlu songs from the West Kimberley" (lead supervisor with Allan Marett)