Dr Clint Bracknell is a musician and researcher from the south coast Nyoongar region of Western Australia, and associate professor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University.
Dr Bracknell writes, performs and produces music for stage and screen and worked on the first ever Shakespearean production presented entirely in an Aboriginal language. He leads an Australian Research Council funded program of research on restoring connections between song, language, culture and nature.
An awarded secondary and tertiary teacher, Dr Bracknell developed the major in contemporary music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2014-2018). He serves on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Council and as chair of the AIATSIS Foundation.
His PhD study of the aesthetics and sustainability of Nyoongar song (2013-2015) was awarded the 2016 Robert Street Prize at the University of WA for most outstanding thesis.
