MrCallum Clayton-Dixon

Dr Callum Clayton-Dixon is an Ambēyang / Anēwan researcher and language revivalist with bloodlines from the southern end of the New England Tableland, around Walcha, Woolbrook, and the Ingleba Aboriginal Reserve. He is an On-Country Research Fellow with the First Nations Land Justice Hub at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research. Through his doctoral research, completed in 2025, Callum produced the first comprehensive grammar and dictionary of the Aboriginal language of southern New England. His NSW Premier's History Award-winning book Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of the Colonial Apocalypse (2019) is based on his Master’s research. Living and working on Anēwan Country in Armidale, Callum's work focuses on land-based language revival, taking a decolonial and multidisciplinary approach to linguistic reconstruction and archival reclamation. He was a founding member of the Anaiwan Language Revival Program in 2016.