Welcome Michelle Brown - our new postdoc

Today we received the news that Michelle Brown will officially join our team as a postdoctoral scholar, commencing on 1st August 2018. She will be with us part-time for two years. Michelle's postdoc will be funded by my CSU Senior Research Fellowship and she will be supporting the research of our team as well as continuing her PhD research into early literacy:

• Brown, M. I., Westerveld, M. F., & Gillon, G. T. (2017). Early storybook reading with babies and young children: Parents’ opinions and home reading practices. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 42(2), 69-77. doi:10.23965/AJEC.42.2.09 
• Brown, M. I., Westerveld, M. F., Trembath, D., & Gillon, G. T. (2017). Promoting language and social communication development in babies through an early storybook reading intervention. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication doi:10.1080/17549507.2017.1406988 

Michelle had the opportunity to meet with our team at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Adelaide in May. We are delighted she will be working with us over the next two years. 

A video of Michelle discussing her work is here: "Improving language and social skill outcomes for very young children through early storybook reading". Evidence Bites recordings from the 2017 Speech Pathology Australia National conference. 

Michelle Brown (on the left) with our team after the SPA conference