Grants

Grants / Contracts

2016, 2017. Defense Science & Technology Group. Language tools for non-standard regional languages.
2014. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany) Phylogenetic Analysis of the Austroasiatic Languages (A$10,000)
2011. Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, 2012-2016 (A$682,460)
2009. National Endowment For The Humanities (Division of Preservation & Access) for Mon-Khmer languages Project (US$349,540)
2007. National Endowment For The Humanities (Division of Preservation & Access) for Mon-Khmer languages Project (US$349,950)
2005-6. Project funds and "Sachkostenzuschuss" provided by the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany), to support research on the Mon-Khmer languages of Indo-China (Euro96,000)
2003. Direct Aid Fund, Australian Embassy Vientiane, Paksong Ethnic Literacy Promotion Project (US$5000)
2003. Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp. Foundation, Paksong Cultural Centre Project (A$5000)
2002. (with Bowden, S. O’Connor and M. Spriggs), An Integrated Fieldwork Laboratory for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ANU Major Equipment Committee ($177,600)
2001. Australian Research Council Discovery Project Linguistic Prehistory in Mainland Southeast Asia ($210,000)–not taken up
2001-4. Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Linguistic Prehistory in Mainland Southeast Asia ($177,000)
2000. Australian Research Council Small Research Grant (Faculties Research Scheme) History of Bahnaric Languages ($4,900).
1998. University of Melbourne Postgraduate write-up award ($1,500).
1997-8. University of Melbourne Postgraduate Scholarship.
1995-6. La Trobe University Postgraduate Scholarship.