Congratulations to Dr Kate Margetson who received the Charles Sturt University Higher Degree Research Medal this week at the Bathurst graduation ceremony. There are only three medals per year awarded - only one person per Faculty per year - so this is a very significant achievement. Congratulations Kate - we are so proud of you!
Kate's PhD was titled: Moving Beyond Monolingual Practices with Multilingual Children: Learning from Vietnamese-English–Speaking Children, Families, and Professionals https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/moving-beyond-monolingual-practices-with-multilingual-children-le . Her PhD supervisors were Prof Sharynne McLeod and A/Prof Sarah Verdon.
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| Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod, Dr Kate Margetson, Vice Chancellor Renee Leon |
Potential university medal awardees are nominated by the SubDean (Graduate Studies) based on their examiners' reports, academic prizes and/or scholarships; research outputs from the doctoral or master by research (refereed publications, conference proceedings, journal articles, etc.); and the impact of the research both in terms of actual and potential outcomes for industry, government, professional organisations, business and community (https://www.csu.edu.au/division/vcoffice/ogca/governance/university-medals/higher-degree-by-research-university-medal).
Kate's PhD extended the work of our Australian Research Council Discovery Grant: VietSpeech (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/overview). She has published and presented many papers from her PhD. Since completing her PhD, Kate has been undertaking a postdoc funded by the Rural Health Research Institute to use implementation science to continue the development of the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Languages (SACHL, Margetson & McLeod, 2025) (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments/sachl).
The Children's Voices Centre staff had a wonderful time celebrating with our graduates, Dr Kate Margetson and Dr. Melissa Brunner during the graduation ceremony.
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| Children's Voices Centre: Dr Helen L. Blake, A/Prof Tamara Cumming, A/Prof Kathy Cologon, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Carolyn Gregoric |
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| Staff from the Children's Voices Centre and School of Education |