Leonard Collard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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ARC Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia
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Place of Birth: Pingelly, Western Australia, Australia
About Leonard Collard
- Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies University of Western Australia.Collard is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia.
- He has a background in literature and communications, and has researched areas including Noongar interpretive histories and Noongar theoretical and practical research models.In 2011 Collard commenced a three-year study of Noongar place names and intends to create a public website of 25,000 Noongar words for different places around the South West of Western Australia.
- In 2014 he announced his project to create the world's first online Aboriginal encyclopaedia, Noongarpedia, to preserve the endangered Noongar language.
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