Peter Austin is Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics and Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London. Peter's research interests cover descriptive, theoretical and applied linguistics. He has 40 years of fieldwork experience on Australian Aboriginal languages (northern New South Wales, northern South Australia, and north-west Western Australia) and since 1995 has been carrying out research on Sasak and Samawa, Austronesian languages spoken on Lombok and Sumbawa islands, eastern Indonesia. His theoretical research is mainly on language documentation, syntax (with a focus on Lexical Functional Grammar), morpho-syntactic typology, computer-aided lexicography and multi-media for endangered languages. He has also published on historical and comparative linguistics, typology, and Aboriginal history and biography. Peter is currently working with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation on a language revitalisation project -- you can read about the project and its activities at  www.dieriyawarra.wordpress.com