Inge Kral is a linguistic anthropologist with some twenty years experience in Indigenous education. She was a teacher, teacher linguist, adult literacy educator and education consultant in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia prior to commencing at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research in 2003. Inge has also worked as an English as a Second Language adult educator and teacher trainer in the Czech Republic, East Timor and the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

In 2007 Inge completed her ethnography of literacy Ph.D thesis: 'Writing words - right way! Literacy and social practice in the Ngaanyatjarra world'. In 2007 she commenced a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at CAEPR under an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (2007-2010) partnership between CAEPR & the Fred Hollows Foundation entitled Lifespan learning and literacy for young adults in remote Indigenous communities.

Inge's research interests include community-based out of school learning and literacy; youth, digital media and new literacies; family literacy; Australian Indigenous languages and literacy; school to work transitions; and population mobility.

Awards and Scholarships

2007-2010 Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship.

1982 W.E.H. Stanner Prize for Aboriginal Studies, The Australian National University.

1998 M.A.K. Halliday Scholarship for Masters research auspiced by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

2007 Australian Anthropological Society Thesis Prize for 2007 for PhD thesis by research: 'Writing words - right way! Literacy and social practice in the Ngaanyatjarra world'.