June 27, 2022

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting

Today our Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting met face-to-face by the first time. We met in Bathurst, Albury and online. Over half of our team (16 people) were available for this inspiring day. We spent time working out WHY we are doing our research. We also established a Twitter community.

ECIR Albury

ECIR Zoom


June 22, 2022

2022 is a challenging year for so many people

Today I attended the School of Education School Board meeting. Here is a sentence from the agenda documents:

We have received an enormous number of requests for ... assessment extensions as well as approved withdrawals this session. In addition to COVID health issues, mental health, financial and personal circumstances have been strong reasons for these student applications.

In Australia, 2022 has been a challenging year, including that we have the highest numbers of COVID cases in the world (since we were in lockdown when other countries experienced this in 2020 and 2021). In previous years when someone had difficulties, others were available to step up and support. This year, many people have things going on, so there are fewer people who can step up to enable life to keep going.

June 8, 2022

PwC Expert Advisory Panel

Today the PwC Expert Advisory Panel met to plan for the last steps of this two year project to inform the Australian Government about funding for students with disabilities across all educational sectors. The project has four steps: 1. Evidence - literature review 2. Good practice school survey 3. Regression analysis of sector and school survey results to cost support for students with disability 4. Professional judgement of 40 case studies, then a Delphi approach to come to consensus about costs for reasonable and better practice adjustments (June - July 2022). My contribution will conclude in September 2022 at the final meeting.

June 7, 2022

Early Childhood Voices book

Today our team of editors (Linda Mahony, Andi Salamon, Jenny Dwyer and myself) met to plan to review chapters submitted for our Early Childhood Voices book to be published by Springer. It is exciting to see the chapter submissions we have recieved. Our authors are from across the world so the content is fascinating.

Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts

Today I was nominated by CSU to attend a session providing information about the Australian Research Council College of Experts. This is a very important body overseeing funding decisions for Australian research.

Special issue of IJSLP focussing on SDGs

Our special issue of IJSLP focussing on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is going well. So many people have been able to review the >30 manuscripts and give great feedback. I have had a little trouble finding reviewers for some manuscripts though (one I have asked 10 people and only have 1 reviewer). Some papers have gone back to authors for review. It is going to be a fantastic special issue.

June 3, 2022

Preparing a talk about Twitter

Thank you to the generous Prof Bronwyn Hemsley @BronwynHemsley and Dr Liss Brunner who have shared their slides and resources for me to prepare a talk to the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme about tweeting.

Here is a gem from Liss

Here are some images from my work that I will use


 





Here are some accounts that I will share in my talk:

  • @CSU_ECRG
  • @SV_SLP
  • @JulianGrant5
  • @EarlyChildAus


June 2, 2022

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme

Today the leaders of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme met to put into place plans for our ECIR  research, research assistant, PhD student, team meeting (27 June 2022), communication strategy, future conference, and potential international research agreement. I really enjoy working with the productive and supportive ECIR leadership team.



VietSpeech has been profiled in the Charles Sturt University Research Bulletin

VietSpeech has been profiled in the Charles Sturt University Research Bulletin

Faculty of Arts and Education: SOE Media Contributions  

VietSpeech Team Recently, the VietSpeech team hosted an online launch of the free bilingual book titled "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ". The 52-page book aims to support Vietnamese-Australian children and families to maintain their home language and enhance speech skills in Vietnamese and English. It contains many strategies to support families’ teaching of Vietnamese every day at home. The free book is available here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/info 

This book is the culmination of the VietSpeech research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery ARC Discovery Grant is titled Vi­etnamese-Australian children's speech and language competence (DP180102848) that began in 20218 and concluded in December 2021. 

VietSpeech team members are here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/team 

More details https://about.csu.edu.au/community/events/upcoming/online/vietspeech-book-launch 

The CSU media release is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/in-brief/research-delivers-free-bilingual-book-vietspeech-to-be-launched-online