'Fiona Magowan was educated at the universities of Nottingham and Oxford in Music and Social Anthropology and awarded a D.Phil at Oxford in 1995. She held a lectureship in Anthropology at Manchester University from 1993-96 before taking up a lectureship at Adelaide University, South Australia between 1996-2003. She returned to Queen's University, Belfast in 2003 where she lectured in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. She has been Vice-President of the Australian Anthropological Society 2000-2002 and has been Chair of both the Anthropological Association of Ireland and the Music and Gender Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music.
Her research interests span issues of movement, music and the senses in anthropology and ethnomusicology. She has conducted fieldwork on religion, ritual and Christianity amongst Yolngu in north east Arnhem Land, first in 1990 and on cultural tourism and landscape during July-August 2006. Her book examines Yolngu sensory awareness of the Northern Territory environment through music and dance, and the emotions produced by women in ritual performance. She has also carried out water development and customary marine tenure consultancies in far north Queensland and north east Arnhem Land. In recent years, she has worked on senses of musical healing in Northern Ireland.' Source: www.qub.ac.uk (Sighted 18/01/2008).
