Areas of expertise

• Education Policy 160506
• Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Education 130301
• Linguistic Anthropology 160103
• Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Languages 200319
• Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society 169902
• Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405

Research interests

Researcher's projects

Publications

• Kral, I., Fasoli, L., Smith, H. et al. 2021, A strong start for every Indigenous child. OECD Working Paper. Paris: OECD
• Kral, I, Green, J & Ellis, E, eds, 2020, i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia, UWA Publishing, Perth, Western Australia.
• Kral, I 2020, 'Divided Digital Practices: A Story From Indigenous Australia', in Ernest Morrell and Jennifer Rowsell (ed.), Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education: Confronting Digital Divides, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, New York, pp. 34-50.
• DITRC, AIATSIS: J. Battin, J. Lee, D. Marmion, R. Smith, T. Wang, ANU: Y. Dinku, J. Hunt, F. Markham, D. Angelo, E. Browne, I. Kral, C. O’Shannessy, J. Simpson & H. Smith (2020) National Indigenous Languages Report. Canberra: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, formerly the Department of Communications and the Arts. https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/indigenous-arts-and-languages/national-indigenous-languages-report
• Kral, I & Ellis, E.M. 2020, In the Time of Their Lives. Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert. Perth WA: UWA Publishers. Winner: Honorable Mention - Edward Sapir Award 2021. http://linguisticanthropology.org/about/prizes/
• Kral, I, Green, J & Ellis, E 2019, 'Wangkarra: communication and the verbal arts of Australia's Western Desert', International Journal of Intangible Heritage, vol. 14, pp. 33-47.
• Ellis, E, Green, J, Kral, I et al 2019, 'Mara yurriku: Western Desert sign languages', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2, pp. 89-111.
• Ellis, E, Green, J & Kral, I 2019, 'i-Tjuma: The journey of a collection - from documentation to delivery', in L Barwick, J Green & P Vaarzon-Morel (ed.), Archival Returns: Central Australia and beyond, University of Hawaii Press, Hawai, pp. 303-323.
• Angelo, D, O'Shannessy, C, Simpson, J et al. 2019, Well-being & Indigenous Language Ecologies (WILE): A strengths-based approach. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/186414
• Kral, I & Ellis, E (2019), 'Language vitality in and out of school in a remote Indigenous Australian context', in T. McCarty, S. Nicholas & G. Wigglesworth (ed.), World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, pedagogies and prospects for language revitalization and maintenance, Multilingual Matters Ltd, United Kingdom.
• Kral, I & Renganathan, S 2018, 'Beyond School: Digital Cultural Practice as a Catalyst for Language and Literacy', in G Wigglesworth, J Simpson, J Vaughan (ed.), Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 365-386.
• Wan, R, Renganathan, S & Kral, I 2018, 'Tekná - a vanishing oral tradition among the Kayan people of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo', Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 46, no. 135, pp. 218-234.
• Renganathan, S & Kral, I 2018, 'Comparative Analysis of Language and Education Policies for Indigenous Minorities in Australia and Malaysia', International Journal of Multicultural Education, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 138-156.
• Kral, I 2018, 'Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, Language Research in', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom.
• Simpson, Jane Helen; Angelo, Denise;Browne, Emma Clare,;Kral, Inge; Markham, Francis; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Venn, Danielle 2018, 'Census data on Australian Languages', 22nd Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, ed. Sebastian Drude, Nicholas Ostler, Marielle Moser, FEL & EL Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 115-120.
• Ellis, E & Kral, I 2017, 'Book Review: Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa by David Brooks and Darren Jorgenson', Aboriginal History, vol. 41, pp. 225-227pp.
• Massola, C & Kral, I 2017, 'Everyday watching and learning in an Indigenous Australian community', Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, vol. 15, pp. 31-43.
• Kral, I & Schwab, R 2017, 'A space to learn: A community-based approach to meaningful adult learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia', Prospects, vol. online, pp. 13pp.
• Kral, I 2017, 'Yipirinya School: that generation, this generation', in Devlin, Brian Clive, Disbray, Samantha, Devlin, Nancy Regine Friedman (ed.), History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs and Policies, Springer, Australia, pp. 269-284pp.
• Kral, I 2017, 'Remote Indigenous Communities', in Kylie Pepper (ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning, SAGE Publications, USA, pp. 655-658pp.
• Ellis, E, J. Green, J & I. Kral, I (2017), 'Family in mind: Socio-spatial knowledge in a Ngaatjatjarra/Ngaanyatjarra children's game', Research on Children and Social Interaction. Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 164-198
• Ellis, E & Kral, I 2016, 'Book Review - I See Something Better Soon: How a Remote Community Was Transformed through Empowerment by Jim Heslop, Hesperian Press, Perth, 2016', Aboriginal History, vol. 40, pp. 289-291pp.
• Kral, I 2016, 'From the Local to the Global: Socialisation into Adult Literacy Practice in the Remote Indigenous Australian Context', in Keiko Yasukawa and Stephen Black (ed.), Beyond Economic Interests: Critical Perspectives on Adult Literacy and Numeracy in a Globalised World, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, pp. 61-76.
• Kral, I 2016, Only just surviving under the CDP: the Ngaanyatjarra Lands case study. In Jordan, K. and Fowkes, L. (Eds) Job creation and income support in remote Indigenous Australia: Moving forward with a better system. CAEPR Topical Issue No. 2/2016. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research: The Australian National University, pp. 19-23.
• Carew, M, Green, J, Kral, I et al 2015, 'Getting in Touch: Language and Digital Inclusion in Australian Indigenous Communities', Language Documentation and Conservation, vol. 9, pp. 307-323.
• Kral, I, Ellis, E, Simpson, J et al 2015, 'Panel: The expressive use of voice quality in Aboriginal languages. Presentation: "Desert clicks, taps and sound symbolism: Vocal style in Ngaanyatjarra narratives", Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, ed. Australian Linguistic Society, Australian Linguistic Society, http://www.als.asn.au/conferences/uws-2015.
• Kral, I 2014, 'Shifting perceptions, shifting identities: Communication technologies and the altered social, cultural and linguistic ecology in a remote indigenous context', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 171-189.
• Bray, J. Rob, 2014, 'Income Management', in Klein, Elise (Editor) Academic perspectives on The Forrest review: creating parity Topical Issue 2/2014, pp 16-18.
• Kral, I 2013, 'Literacy and social practice matters: An ethnographic perspective', Fine Print, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 9-12.
• Kral, I & Heath, S 2013, 'The world with us: Sight and sound in the "cultural flows" of informal learning. An Indigenous Australian case', Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 227-237.
• Kral, I 2013, 'The acquisition of media as cultural practice: Remote Indigenous youth and new digital technologies', in L. Ormond-Parker, A. Corn, C. Fforde, K. Obata & S. O'Sullivan (ed.), Information Technology and Indigenous Communities, AIATSIS Research Publications, Canberra, pp. 53-73.
• Kral, I 2012, Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice in Remote Indigenous Australia, Multilingual Matters Ltd, Bristol UK.
• Kral, I & Schwab, R 2012, Learning Spaces: Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra.
• Kral, I 2011, 'Youth media as cultural practice: Remote Indigenous youth speaking out loud', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4-16.
• Kral, I 2011, Technology Dreaming, pp. 12-14pp.
• Kral, I 2010, 'Remote Indigenous Australian youth, multimodality and changing media practice. (Panel: Changing channels: Trans-cultural circulations and transitions of televisual media)', American Anthropological Association annual meeting 2010, ed. American Anthropological Association, American Anthropological Association, http://www.americananthro.org/.
• Kral, I 2010, 'Remote Indigenous Australian youth, multimodality and changing media practice', Information Technology in Indigenous Communities Symposium, ed. AIATSIS, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), http://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/information-technologies-and-indigenous-communities.
• Kral, I 2010, Generational change, learning and remote Australian Indigenous youth, CAEPR Working Paper No. 68.
• Kral, I 2010, Plugged in: Remote Australian Indigenous youth and digital culture, CAEPR Working Paper No. 69.
• Kral, I 2009, The Literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia. CAEPR Topical Issue 06/2009., pp. 6pp.
• Kral, I 2009, 'Oral to literate traditions: emerging literacies in remote Aboriginal Australia', TESOL in Context, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 34-49.
• Kral, I 2008, Literary as Social Practice.
• Kral, I & Ellis, E 2008, 'Children, language and literacy in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands', in J. Simpson and G. Wigglesworth (ed.), Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Continuum Publishing Company, London, pp. 154-172.
• Kral, I & Morphy, F 2006, 'Language', Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence, ed. B.H. Hunter, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 279-289.
• Obata, K & Kral, I 2005, Ngaanyatjarra Picture Dictionary, IAD Press, Alice Springs Australia.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Evaluation of the English Language Learning for Indigenous Children (ELLIC) trial - Phase 4 & 5 (Secondary Investigator)
• Evaluation of the English Language Learning for Indigenous Children (ELLIC) trial - Phase 1 and 2 (Secondary Investigator)
• Working papers on improving Education Outcomes for Indigenous Student (Secondary Investigator)
• Indigenous Languages Project (Secondary Investigator)
• Western Desert speech styles and verbal arts (Secondary Investigator)
• Western Desert Special speech Styles (Primary Investigator)
• Connecting, communicating and learning through new media: Indigenous youth and digital futures in remote Australia (Primary Investigator)
• Lifespan Learning project 2010 (Primary Investigator)
• Lifespan learning and literacy for young adults in remote Indigenous communities (Secondary Investigator)