We just learned that our article was "the #1 viewed article on the TLD site last year with 5,123 views"
Ireland, M., McLeod, S., Farquharson, K., & Crowe, K. (2020). Evaluating children in U.S. public schools with speech sound disorders: Considering federal and state laws, guidance, and research. Topics in Language Disorders, 40(4), 326–340. https://doi.org/10.1097/tld.0000000000000226
On Thursday 23rd February, the CSU Vice-Chancellor presented the following awards. Our team was well represented.
Researcher/Research Team of the Year
An award for outstanding research with outcomes extending beyond the University
and commendation awards for a researcher/research team from each Faculty.
Faculty of Arts and Education: Professor
Sharynne McLeod
Faculty of Business: Dr Ashad Kabir
Faculty of Science and Health: Professor Chris Blanchard
Overall winner: Professor Chris Blanchard
Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year
An award for outstanding research undertaken by an HDR student and commendation
awards for an HDR student from each Faculty.
Faculty of Arts and Education: Dr Van Tran
Faculty of Business: Dr Scott McManus
Faculty of Science and Health: Dr Helenna Mihailou
Overall winner: Dr Van Tran
Excellence in HDR Supervision - Professor Chris
Blanchard
An award for outstanding supervision of Higher Degree Research students.
Research Excellence through Partnership
An award recognising the importance of university researchers initiating,
developing, and managing high quality research partnerships with community,
industry or international partners.
Winner: Waiting for Speech Pathology Team - Professor Sharynne McLeod, Dr
Nicole McGill, Dr Kathryn Crowe, Dr Suzanne Hopf, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, and Dr
Nicola Ivory
Teaching Scholar of the Year - Dr Nicole Sugden,
School of Psychology, Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
An award for a teaching focused academic (including casual staff) engaged in
high quality "scholarship informed" teaching practice.
Excellence as an Early Career Researcher
An award for outstanding research undertaken by an early career researcher and
commendation awards for a researcher from each Faculty.
Faculty of Arts and Education: Dr Jane
Garner
Faculty of Business: Dr Tyson Whitten
Faculty of Science and Health: Dr Nidhish Francis
Overall joint winners: Dr Nidhish Francis and Dr Jane
Garner
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| Research Excellence through Partnership |
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| Researcher of the Year: Faculty of Arts and Education |
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| Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year |
Today Holly McAlister marked another PhD milestone. Her PhD endorsement documents are finished and ready to go to her panel. Well done Holly.
I have just signed off on the final page proofs for our special issue on Communication, swallowing and the SDGs to be published by the Q1 journal - International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
This special issue of IJSLP demonstrates that successful communication is necessary for realisation of all 17 SDGs at both a global and an individual level and advances the international call for SDG 18: Communication for All. The 36 papers address all 17 goals, focussing on poverty, hunger, health, education, work, innovation, climate, cities, land, oceans, justice, and partnerships. Authors worked and undertook their research in Australia, Austria, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Columbia, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, State of Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, UK, USA, Vietnam.
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| Sharynne, Prof Julian Grant, Dr Nicola Ivory, Dr Emmaline Lear |
| Subject: | Outcomes From The 2023 Research Retreat "Top 200 By 50" |
| Message: | Dear colleagues Many thanks to Retreat participants for your active and deep participation. It was uplifting to be part of the conversation. We certainly achieved objectives 1, 2 and 4 of the Retreat. First, gain greater clarity over the University's 2030 Research Strategy and: Second, foster better understanding of Faculty and Research Institute research aspirations and principles and avenues for collaboration and establish joint working arrangements. Third, complete the co-design of new Research Service missions and charters. And, fourth, celebrated the winners of the 2022 Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards. A more detailed report will follow but we agreed to the following principles to inform Institute-Faculty-School relations:
The 10 principles triggered a detailed conversation on the actions viewed as necessary to inform a strong Research Institute-Faculty-School collaborative culture. These actions are largely about identifying enabling structures for collaboration including: 1 - Internal recruitment of an Inter-Institute-Faculty Dean and co-design of coordination machinery (e.g. Then there are recommendations for a range of joint programs: 6 - Joint research programmes 7 - Joint education programmes 8 - Researcher support and development strategies And then, 9 - We recognized the need for strategic joint working on: The general take-home message is that we are all committed to change and willing and able to engage in quality collaboration. It is envisaged that this year's Retreat will be held in Orange in the last quarter and will focus on the First Nation's Research Strategy. In the meantime, we will need your help and support to complete the co-design of the new Research Service missions and charters. Best wishes |
On Thurs 23 and Fri24th February, the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research held a research retreat in Canberra for about 50 staff. It was an inspiring 2 days.
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| Associate Deans Research and Head of Research Institutes |
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| Sharynne, Julian Grant, Nicola Ivory, Emmaline Lear |
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| DVC Research Mark Evans |
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| Nilima Mathai, Rhonda O'Brien, Brenda Kirkby - Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) |
One of my PhD students has been offered a place in Research Central over the first half of 2023. Here are the details:
Research Central is run by Adroit Research, an online community of practice for Graduate Research Candidates. This virtual online community aims to complement the support that CSU provides, adding to it with self-paced courses on doing systematic literature reviews, data collection, data analysis and writing up.
As a participant of Research Central, you will have the opportunity to join up to 4 hours of interactive sessions per week, including a 1-hour Masterclass, a 1-hour Ask Me Anything session with experienced academic Faculty, and a 2-hour Shut up & Write session (see schedule attached). These sessions are designed around promoting a positive mindset, motivation and accountability in research. You will be able to interact and connect with other researchers. The community is designed for regular interaction and meeting other students also on their research journey.
Today we had an inspiring 2-hour team meeting for the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme. Everyone committed to 1-2 research goals to be achieved for the year.
This year ECIR will be led by
Prof Sharynne McLeod, Prof Julian Grant, Dr Libbey Murray and Dr Suzanne Hopf (while A/Prof Sarah Verdon is on maternity leave). Dr Carolyn Gregoric is our Research Officer (3 days/week)
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| ECIR Leadership Team - Feb 2023 |
I have just learned that I have been awarded a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorship (BBMDVP) to visit the University of Bristol for 5 weeks in 2024. I will work with Dr Yvonne Wren and her team on a project titled "Children born with cleft palate: Intelligibility and participation". I had been awarded a BBMDVP in 2020, but had been unable to visit due to COVID-19 restrictions. I am looking forward to visiting in 2024.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-partnerships/visiting-researchers/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-partnerships/visiting-researchers/visitors/
Early Childhood Voices 2022 (ECV2022)
Over five days from 5 – 9 December 2022, the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Group held a global online conference titled Early Childhood Voices. It was the second bi-annual conference to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, parents/carers and professionals that supported social justice and Sustainable Development Goals during early childhood or within the early childhood sector. The conference attracted 1,956 registrations from 72 countries as well as 6 keynote presentations and 95 oral presentations from 25 countries. During the week of the conference there were 6,431 page views from 1,358 users. In addition, there were over 3,517 YouTube views of the presentations and 243 hours of viewing. A popular initiative was the Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery, which enabled children from across the globe to share images of themselves talking to someone. These galleries collectively were viewed more than any other presentation at ECV2022. Five yarning circles were held for synchronous conversations between conference participants on pre-determined topics. The conference was free for presenters and attendees; drawing on Charles Sturt University’s motto “for the public good”. Conference presentations can still be viewed online https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/
Today I attended a CSU workshop titled "Basic principles of IP and Commercialisation" presented by Eeshan Kulkarni on behalf of Campus+
Here is the description This webinar provides a 101 to the topics of Intellectual Property and the Commercialisation of Research. Join us on Friday 10th February as we look at the questions of what happens next after doing research, how impact is delivered and what role does intellectual property and commercialisation play.
In the next few months The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World is due to Oxford University Press. This huge project (~80 chapters) has taken a very long time. I am loving reviewing the authors' chapters and meeting with some of the authors as they finalise their chapters. This evening I met with Diana Tomic from Croatia who is finalising her chapter on Croatian Speech Development. It is exciting that this will be one of the first publications in the world to summarize Croatian speech development.
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| Dr Diana Tomic (Croatia) and Sharynne |
The first meeting of our "Children draw talking across the world" team was held today. We are planning to undertake a descriptive analysis of the amazing drawings submitted to ECV2022 in our Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery.
During 2022 the Multilingual Children's Speech website (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech) was popular with 82,764 views:
I am so pleased to be back on the Bathurst campus at Charles Sturt University after almost 3 years. This week I have had lovely and inspiring conversations with colleagues - including Dr Kate Smithers (Education) and Dr Ros Cox (Communications).
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| Sharing lunch with Dr Kate Smithers |
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| Chatting about communication with Dr Ros Cox |
Exciting news. Oxford University Press sent the following email regarding the second edition of Chidlren's Speech:
"Good news! The Delegates approved your proposal at the meeting yesterday. Hurrah! I’m delighted we’ll be publishing the textbook, and I look forward to working with you over the next stages."
Elise Baker and I are looking forward to getting this book written and out there. A lot of people have been emailing us about the fact that the first edition is no longer available.
Today we had a 4.5 hour Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme leadership meeting to celebrate 2022 and plan for 2023 and 2024.
The ECIR leadership team consists of
We have fabulous plans for our research to support children around the world to thrive, and to support their families, the professionals who work with them. We also have plans for mentoring the 30+ researchers (academics, HDR students and adjuncts) who are associated with ECIR.
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| Dr Carolyn Gregoric, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Prof Julian Grant, Dr Libbey Murray, A/Prof Sarah Verdon |