Dr. Mitch Browne is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Linguistics discipline at the University of Western Australia. He earned his BA with First Class Honours in Linguistics from the University of Western Australia in 2016, followed by a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Queensland in 2021. His doctoral thesis, titled 'A Grammatical Description of Warlmanpa, a Ngumpin-Yapa Language Spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory)', was supervised by Felicity Meakins, Mary Laughren, and David Nash. In 2022, Browne served as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he lectured and coordinated several courses, including LING1001 Language and Communication, LING2002 The Sounds of the World's Languages, LING3003 Linguistics of Australian Indigenous Languages, and LING4103 Methods in Linguistic Research. His academic journey also includes a double major in Linguistics and Management during his undergraduate studies.

Browne's research specializations encompass the documentation and description of traditional Australian languages in collaboration with speakers and community members, with particular focus on morphology, phonology, syntax, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, and semantics. He has contributed significantly to the field through key publications such as 'Cross-referencing of non-subject arguments in Pama-Nyungan languages' (with T. Ennever, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2023), 'Ngumpin-Yapa Languages' (with F. Meakins et al., in The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages, 2023), 'A grammar of Warlmanpa' (ANU Press, 2024), and 'Stop oppositions in Warumungu: a distributional and acoustic analysis' (with M. Proctor et al., Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2024). Among his honors are the Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses from the University of Queensland in 2021, a Research Training Program Scholarship totaling $98,331, a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2025-2029) valued at $518,000, and various funding awards including the Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy Scheme ($2,500) and fieldwork funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language ($11,159).

Professional Email: mitch.browne@uwa.edu.au