Research communiqué Research news at Charles Sturt Summer 2023

The Summer 2023 edition of Research Communiqué Research news at Charles Sturt was launched today. https://research.csu.edu.au/research-support/communications/bulletins/communique Thank you to Prof Mark Evans, DVC-R and congratulations to all of my amazing colleagues on everything that has been done over the past few months "for the public good". The document is 133 pages long! I have copied pages that mention the research and activities undertaken by myself and our team that were featured in this edition.

2023 Charles Sturt Excellence Award winners

WOW! Today our teams were notified about the 2023 Charles Sturt Excellence Awards

From the Vice Chancellor: "I am excited to announce our 2023 Charles Sturt Excellence Award Winners and Highly Commended are now available to view on RED. Congratulations to this year’s winners and highly commended. Your work has had an outstanding impact on our students, research and the community. We recognise and appreciate your exceptional effort and achievements, which contribute to the success of our University, realisation of our Strategy and living our Values." 

**RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS: Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR) 

Recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions of individuals and teams who engage in research excellence that contributes to the success of Charles Sturt and drives regional outcomes with global impact. 

Research Winners: Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR) 

Names: Sharynne McLeod (Team Lead), Belinda Frieze, Kristen Andrews, Kate Margetson, Belinda Downey, Linda Mahony, Kelly-Ann Tribolet, Laura Delli-Pizzi, Michelle Brown, Olebeng Mahura, Kate Freire, Ben Pham, Carmen Huser, Nicola Ivory, Sheena Elwick, Nicole McGill, Jessamy Davies, Laura Hoffman, Shukla Sikder, Roslyn Cox, Marie Ireland, Lysa Dealtry, Anna Cronin, Jenny Dwyer, Leanne Gibbs, Julian Grant, Sarah Verdon, Audrey Wang, Carolyn Gregoric, Azizur Rahman, Robyn Brunton, Suzanne Hopf, Cheree Dean, Van Tran, Holly Mcalister, Andi Salamon, Sarah Stenson, Kate Crowe, Libbey Murray, Cherie Zischke, Graham Daniel 

What the nomination was for: This nomination is for excellence in research capacity building. ECIR provides an internship model where early career researchers are well supported by more experienced researchers in a wide range of research activities including organising conferences, editing books, writing book chapters, running research projects, analysing data, writing journal articles, and applying for promotion and grants. Members work collaboratively on projects such as the hosting of the Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2022), recent submission of an edited book arising from ECV2020 presentations, and analysis of children’s drawings from across the globe. These joint projects develop knowledge, skills and experience for members to pursue their own research interests. 

Why it is Excellence Award worthy: Not only have ECIR members been very research active themselves, but they have created capacity building opportunities for other researchers, within and beyond the team. Members willingly share with each other for the benefit of all and to grow knowledge about early childhood and conducting research, particularly from an interdisciplinary perspective. The group brings together Educators, Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Computer Scientists, Nurses and Physiotherapists who may not usually research together. Achievements over the past year include journal articles (55 accepted + 16 submitted), conference papers( 59 presented/accepted for presentation +18 conference workshops/seminars etc + 4 submitted), book chapters (29 published/in press + 1 submitted), books (3 published/in press + 1 under contract), and conference proceedings (1 published). They also have a high level of community engagement with 3 events hosted/training delivered, 22 media coverages, 4 media contributions, social media profile, 5 public lectures/presentations, 19 community consultations. Members are well recognised for their achievements with 3 individual and 1 group awards, leadership/membership of professional associations and editorial boards, invited working party and advisory participants. They have had 2 PhD completions and 2 PhD submissions by ECIR members and provide HDR support to 17 students.

 

 

**SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (HIGHLY COMMENDED): Speech Pathology Team 

Recognises and celebrates individuals and teams who engage regionally and globally to drive positive, bold change to deliver resilient people, sustainable environments and flourishing communities, ensuring the delivery of real and impactful benefits for the wider community.

Names: Suzanne Hopf (Team Lead), Linda Wilson, Cyrena Hunt-Madden, Catherine Easton, Alex Spiller, Laura Hoffman, Lisa Brown, Caitlin Slaney, Marijke Denton, Sharynne McLeod, Chris Plant, Sarah Verdon

Nominees selected for collaborating extensively to support various initiatives, including the development of speech pathology services and university programs in low-middle-income countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Fiji. They have facilitated innovative work-integrated learning solutions for global citizenship skills and local community access to speech pathology services. The team has also contributed to HDR enrolments and Australia Awards scholarships for students from Cambodia, Ghana, and Vietnam. Furthermore, they have published professional association position statements and clinical guidelines for culturally responsive speech pathology practice, and their research impact is evident with over 30 publications and presentations in the last two years.

ASHA celebrations

While in Boston at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention I have had the opportunity to celebrate the awards of my colleagues: 

Honors of the Association 

• Lynn Williams, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, FASHA, FNAP 
• Catherine J. Crowley, JD, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL 
• Karla K. McGregor, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL 

Fellowship of the Association 

• Kelly Farquharson, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL
• Anna Miles, PhD - New Zealand
  

Anna Miles became the second (ever) ASHA Fellow from New Zealand

I was honoured to be a guest of Lynn Williams at the awards ceremony and give a speech at her celebration following the ceremony. Lynn and I have worked together for 20 years, since we chaired an ASHA convention committee in 2003. Lynn is currently the National Academies of Practice Vice President for Professional Development and Interim Dean and Professor for the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences, East Tennessee State University.

Here is an excerpt from my letter of recommendation for Lynn to receive ASHA Honors that I read at the celebration party: 

The decision to award Dr. Williams ASHA Honors will be very easy as she is unrivalled in her contribution, capacity, and competence across every aspect of our field: national service (leadership, advocacy), research, teaching, and clinical practice. Words I would use to describe Dr. Williams are that she is genuine, rigorous, knowledgeable, innovative, ethical, practical, collegial, consultative, encouraging, compassionate, respectful and world-leading. I completely concur that her “contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the professions” across the world.

The book that Lynn, Rebecca and I edited was in the exhibit hall listed as a "best seller"!

CSU FOAE Researcher of the Year; Research Excellence through Partnership; AND Research Thesis of the Year

I received this welcome email thils morning:

"The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and we are delighted to inform you that you have been awarded both the 

Faculty of Arts and Education Researcher of the Year and the 

Research Excellence through Partnership prizes. 

Many congratulations for your fantastic contribution to the University! We would like to invite you to the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023 to receive the awards from the Vice Chancellor.

Professor Mark Evans (Chair) on behalf of the Awards Committee

Shortly afterwards our PhD student received this email: 

Dear Dr Van Tran, The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and we are delighted to inform you that you have been awarded both the

Faculty of Arts and Education Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year prize and the

joint winner of the overall Charles Sturt Research Thesis of the Year prize

This is an award for outstanding research undertaken by an HDR student.

Many congratulations for your fantastic contribution to the University! We would like to invite you to the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023 to receive the awards from the Vice Chancellor.

Professor Mark Evans (Chair) on behalf of the Awards Committee

Dr Van Tran receiving her PhD at graduation in August 2022

Subject:	Vice-Chancellor's 2022 Research Excellence Awards
Date:	07-DEC-22
Subject:	Vice-Chancellor's 2022 Research Excellence Awards
Message:	The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and have recommended the following award winners to the Vice Chancellor: 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. 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 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 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 Award winners will receive their awards from the Vice Chancellor at the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023. Details will follow. The Awards Dinner was postponed to the new year due to the impact of the NSW floods. Please join me in congratulating the award winners. Mark Evans, DVCR

ASHA award for contribution to the schools

Congratulations to my long-time colleague Julie Malone, who was awarded the Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution in the Schools at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Awards Ceremony tonight. 

Here is the description of the award: 

The Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution to the Schools recognizes an individual’s exemplary commitment and contribution to the delivery of audiology and/or speech-language pathology services within a school setting.The Van Hattum Award is a memorial recognition of Rolland J. Van Hattum, who had a long and distinguished career providing audiology and speech-language pathology services and support in the schools. He believed strongly in the dedication and professionalism of his colleagues in the schools and, until his death in 1987, continued to advocate for the support and recognition of their achievements.

The awardee receives a plaque and an award of $2,000. In addition, the recipient’s school system will receive $500 to further the awarded work.  

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION Eligible activities or achievements include, but are not limited to: Conducting exemplary clinical services, supervision, or research in a school setting. Developing an innovative program (e.g., clinical, training) in a school setting, with an emphasis on those that are replicable. Promoting or enhancing public or private support for audiology and speech-language pathology services in the schools. https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/rolland-van-hattum-award-for-contribution-in-the-schools/

Edy Strand, Julie Malone, Sharynne McLeod

Congratulations Sarah Verdon - Most productive Early Career Researcher in the School of Allied Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences

Today Sarah Verdon was congratulated on her 2021 Faculty of Science and Health Research Award by the Dean of Science and Health at CSU. Congratulations Sarah!

This award is to recognise your exemplary contribution to dissemination of your research through quality publications and through your positive actions to seek funding for your research. You have been identified by the Charles Sturt Research Productivity Index as our most productive Early Career Researcher in the School of Allied Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences. Your research outputs and performance show dedication to creating and sharing knowledge and contributing to our University purpose of creating a world worth living in. Well done on this achievement and this recognition of your research success. Yours sincerely, Megan Smith

 

ASHA Awards Ceremony

The online American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Awards Ceremony was held in Washington D.C. Friday 19th November. https://convention.asha.org/networking/awards-ceremony/

The Awards Ceremony celebrates the highest achievements and excellence in the professions. Awards presented this evening include the Honors of the Association—ASHA's most prestigious award, which recognizes lifetime achievement—and ASHA Fellows, whose recipients' contributions are the cornerstones of the communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professions. ASHA will present additional awards to honor other members who have also contributed to the professions and to ASHA. The 2020 awardees will also receive a special recognition from 2020 ASHA President Theresa H. Rodgers.

ASHA has 218,000 members and awardees are nominated then voted on by a committee. The list of 2021 awards recipients is here: https://www.asha.org/about/awards/2021-awards-recipients/

I was one of 11  colleagues receiving ASHA Honors in 2021 and was the first ASHA International Affiliate to receive the award since it began in 1944.  

The CSU News story about my award is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/unique-international-honour-for-speech-and-language-acquisition-expert

Here is the video that ASHA created to announce my award at the ceremony: https://vimeo.com/644073807

Here is the Awards Ceremony booklet: https://asha-convention.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-and-2021-Convention-Awards-Booklet.pdf 

My colleagues Elise Baker, Marie Ireland, and Karla Washington and other colleagues from the US were awarded ASHA Fellows at the ceremony. 

Dr Elise Baker (ASHA Fellow) and Prof Sharynne McLeod (ASHA Honoree)

We celebrated in Bathurst with our family and friends (restricted due to COVID-19)

 

Unfortunately Elise and I were unable to travel from Australia for the ceremony, so watched online and celebrated with our families and friends. We were pleased that Lynn Williams (ASHA President) and Rebecca McCauley  accepted our awards on our behalf.

ASHA President Lynn Williams accepted my award on my behalf (and I was surprised she had a cutout of my head!)

ASHA Honors recipients

Elise Baker's ASHA Fellow Award was accepted by Rebecca McCauley

After the ceremony, Elise and I had an online Zoom celebration with friends and colleagues from Vietnam, Iceland, UK, US and Australia

Marie Ireland was backstage with the other ASHA awardees.

Tommie Robinson (ASHA Honors), Marie Ireland (ASHA Fellow) with cutouts of Karla Washington and myself!

Stephen Camarata (ASHA Honors) with my head!

Here is the recording of the ASHA Awards ceremony: https://stream.asha.org/2021-convention-awards# Log on ID: 12070449. My award was accepted by the ASHA President, Professor Lynn Williams and occurred between 0:43 – 0:47 minutes and 1:21 – 1:23.  Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger’s award was introduced 1:23 ff, then at 1:27ff

It has been a busy few days with all of our ASHA presentations going on (https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2021/11/american-speech-language-hearing.html) as well as responding to all of the lovely emails, tweets, texts and phonecalls.

Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW

I have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW https://www.royalsoc.org.au

The Royal Society of New South Wales encourages "... studies and investigations in Science, Art, Literature and Philosophy"... Throughout its history, the Society has done much to foster local research, particularly in science, through meetings, symposia, publications and international scientific exchange, and has supported and fostered the endeavours of other organizations dedicated to the furtherance of knowledge.

Thank you to Interim Vice Chancellor John Germov and Professor Christine Slade from CSU who nominated me to become a Fellow. It is such an honour to be amongst such distinguished leaders https://www.royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows

The category of Fellow recognises the substantial contribution made by residents of NSW who are leaders in their fields within the disciplines of science, art, literature and philosophy. Proven leaders and experts in their fields are entitled to use the postnominal FRSN.

This is the 200th anniversary of the Royal Society of NSW. The NEXUS Exhibition at the State Library of NSW begins a year of celebrations to mark the Society’s contributions to the intellectual life of NSW over 200 years. 

Here is the list of new members from the August 2021 bulletin: https://www.royalsoc.org.au/submit-bulletin-documents/2021-issues/378-454-august/file

 

Congratulations Dr Sarah Masso - Humboldt Scholar

This month, Dr Sarah Masso begins as a Humboldt Scholar to work with Prof. Dr. Annette Baumgärtner in the Medizinische Fakultät, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. Congratulations Sarah!

Congratulations Dr Anna Cronin on your graduation and Dr Sarah Verdon on your Young Alumnus award

On Thursday, Anna Cronin graduated with her PhD at the Charles Sturt University graduation ceremony in Bathurst. She received the Higher Degree Research medal for the Faculty of Arts and Education and was invited to speak on behalf of all of the graduates. Dr Sarah Verdon and I were proud supervisors.

Dr Anna Cronin

Dr Nicole McGill was supposed to have received her PhD at the ceremony as well; however, she was unable to attend due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Victoria. We are hoping to celebrate with Nicole at another ceremony in a few weeks' time.

Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Anna Cronin and Dr Sarah Verdon
(Dr Nicole McGill on the phone)

Also at the ceremony Dr Sarah Verdon received the CSU Young Alumnus Award. As a result, she was asked to be the graduation speaker. She presented an inspiring speech to the graduates.

Dr Sarah Verdon - CSU Young Alumnus

We had a virtual graduation ceremony last December: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2020/12/today-our-charles-sturt-university.html so it was lovely to celebrate in person.

Congratulations Dr Anna Cronin - Higher Degree by Research University Medal

Congratulations to Dr Anna Cronin who recently learned that she has been awarded the Charles Sturt University Higher Degree by Research University Medal for the whole of the Faculty of Arts and Education!

Congratulations Dr Ben Pham - Outstanding Researcher of the Year

We were so excited to hear Dr Ben Pham's news. On 20th November 2020 (Vietnamese Teachers' Day) she was:

• Promoted to Senior Lecturer 
• Awarded "Outstanding Researcher of the Year" at Ha Noi National University of Education (HNUE).

Here is the link about her award: https://hnue.edu.vn/KHCN/ThongtinKHCN/tabid/446/Category/21/News/8404/ThongbaoketquaGiaithuongKhoahocCongnghecapTruongnam2020.aspx

She wrote the following words to our Speech-Language-Multilingualism SLM) team:

I could not have achieved this without your support. I am very grateful to be a member in our SLM team and each of you has contributed to my success (though I am very humbled to use the word 'my success'). I would like to say thankyou to all of you. 

I am currently leading a group of Vietnamese researchers in Speech and Language at my university. We are keen on learning from you about research methods for conducting good quality research projects in children's speech, language and communication. I hope the SLM team members could share your experience with our group here.

Congratulations Dr Ben - we are so proud of you - and look forward to our ongoing collaborations.

CSU Alumni Award Winners

WOW! Congratulations to two of our team who have WON the CSU Alumni Awards.

Dr Kate Crowe won the 2020 Professional Achievement – Research category

Dr Sarah Verdon won the 2020 Young Alumnus of the Year

 CSU Alumni wrote:

We are very proud to announce our 2020 Alumni Award winners and highly commended! All of whom are making an astounding impact in their field and inspiring others. We were overwhelmed by the number and quality of nominations. There truly are so many of you living and breathing the Charles Sturt University ethos Yindyamarra Winhanganha, a Wiradjuri phrase that means the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in. 

This is an amazing achievement, as the calibre of entries was incredibly high. Well done on the honour, you deserve the title!
It was originally planned for our Award winners to be presented with your trophy and certificate at the Charles Sturt University graduations in December of this year. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, our ceremonies have had to be postponed until May 2021. We would still love to celebrate your achievement at this postponed ceremony and would be honoured if you could be a guest speaker.

CONGRATULATIONS! We are so proud of you both - and all you have done throughout the world!

Kate Crowe celebrating in Reykjavik, Iceland
when she heard the news

Here are the news items and announcements celebrating their success. 

• Charles Sturt University Alumni Association Announcement: https://alumni.csu.edu.au/current-alumni/alumni-awards
• CSU News announcement: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/inaugural-awards-celebrate-universitys-inspirational-and-impactful-alumni
  
• Verðlaunuð fyrir árangur í rannsóknum (University of Iceland): https://www.hi.is/frettir/verdlaunud_fyrir_arangur_i_rannsoknum

 

 

Health Research and Innovation Award from NSW Health (Western NSW LHD)

Today Emily Davis learned that we were awarded the Health Research and Innovation Award from NSW Health - Western NSW Local Health District for our research "Waiting for Speech Pathology: Advice vs Device". Congratulations to the official team on the grant: Emily Davis (Bathurst), Sharynne McLeod (CSU), Katrina Rohr (Bathurst), Angela Roberts (Bathurst), Nicole McGill (CSU), and Katherine Miller (Dubbo) and the rest of the team Sally Thornton (Dubbo), Nina Aiho (Dubbo), Nicola Ivory (CSU), Cen(Audrey) Wang (CSU), Chris Ferrito (Bathurst), and Louise McMurtrie (Bathurst).

Katrina and Emily accepted the award in Orange at the 2020 WNSWLHD Living Quality & Safety Awards.

Here is the citation:

Waiting for Speech Pathology: Advice or Device brought together a collaboration of speech pathologists from Bathurst and Dubbo, and Charles Sturt University to provide web content of free, evidence-based resources to support families during the time they were waiting for access to face-to-face speech pathology for their child. Since becoming available, the web content has been accessed more than 14,500 times.

The nomination included the following information "the website has been accessed 14,419 times across 90 countries/regions. The website has been widely viewed during the COVID pandemic, with almost half of website hits from NSW occurring from March – June 2020 (4669 of 9542 hits).”

Katrina Rohr and Emily Davis receiving the award at the
2020 WNSWLHD Living Quality & Safety Awards

Emily Davis and Sharynne McLeod

This blog link shares the research journey of our team and acknowledges all who have been involved: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search/label/NSWHealthTRGS

This award is part of the following scheme: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/innovation/Pages/default.aspx

Australia's Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (2018, 2019, 2020)

I am very honoured to learn that I am Australia's Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology for the third year in a row: 2018, 2019, 2020: https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1540291/18/

This is wonderful confirmation of the impact of collaborative research with my Speech-Language-Multilingualism Team, since during 2018-2019 my personal research productivity was diminshed due to my cancer treatments. 

Here are our accomplishments in The Australian Research Rankings since they began:

• 2018: Australia's Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Sharynne McLeod, CSU
  
• 2018: Australia's Lead Institution in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Charles Sturt Univeristy
• 2019: World Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Sharynne McLeod, CSU
• 2019: Australia's Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Sharynne McLeod, CSU
• 2019: Australia's Lead Institution in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Charles Sturt Univeristy
• 2020: Australia's Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Sharynne McLeod, CSU
• 2020: Australia's Lead Institution in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - University of Queensland

I am pleased that three CSU professors were named in 2020:

• 2020: Australia's Field Leader in Insects and Arthropods - Geoff Gurr, CSU
• 2020: Australia's Field Leader in Strategic Management - Morgan Miles, CSU
• 2020: Australia's Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology - Sharynne McLeod, CSU 

CSU wrote a news release about the recognition: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/three-charles-sturt-researchers-named-australian-leaders-in-their-fields

Here is how each ranking is calculated:

• World Leader: "No other researcher in the world has a higher number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the top 20 journals in that particular field"
  (The Australian - Research, p. 10, September 23, 2020).
• Field Leader: "In each of the 255 fields we name the Australian-based researcher whose papers published in the top 20 journals in their field in the past five years have had the most citations by other researchers" (The Australian - Research, p. 9, September 23, 2020).  
• Lead Institution: "The top institution is the one which has the most citations from research published in the top 20 journals in that particular field in the last five years"  (The Australian - Research, p. 9, September 23, 2020).  

Finding out the news while on leave and celebrating with
lavendar and lemon scones straight from the oven!

Here are some news stories and my blog posts about our recognition in previous years:

• 2019: The Australian
• 2019: The Australian newsstory
  
• 2019: Blog post - https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-research-leader-in-audiology.html
• 2018: The Australian
• 2018: Blog post - https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2018/09/australias-research-field-leaders-in.html
  

SUMMARY: In 2018, 2019 and 2020 I was named Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology and in 2019 was named the “best in the world based on the quality, volume and impact of work” by The Australian Newspaper who also named Charles Sturt University the Lead Institution in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology in 2018 and 2019.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=med_audiologyspeechlanguagepathology

 

Highlights for the Annual Faculty of Arts and Education Research Report

I have been asked to provide some highlights from the past year for the Annual Faculty of Arts and Education Research Report. Here are my personal highlights (I haven't included working with my wonderful research students and SLM team or my publications):

Awards 

• Professor Sharynne McLeod was recognised in The Australian newspaper for being Best Researcher in the World in the field of Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology… “based on the quality, volume and impact of their work” (The Australian Research Magazine, 25 September 2019, p. 9) https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1540291/top-of-the-world/ 

• CSU published a news story (25 September 2019) about the award here: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/charles-sturt-speech-pathology-expert-sitting-on-top-of-the-world 

• The Campus Review story (27 September 2019) is here: https://www.campusreview.com.au/2019/09/australian-researcher-named-worlds-best/ 

• Professor Sharynne McLeod and Dr Kate Crowe (CSU Adjunct) were awarded the prestigious American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editor's Award in November 2019in Orlando Florida for the following article: McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 1546-1571. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100 Available: https://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2701897 

 Presentation at the United Nations 

• Professor Sharynne McLeod presented at the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP12) at the United Nations in New York (June 2019) 

o People With Communication Disabilities Speak Up For Inclusion and Participation - UN Web TV (90 minutes) Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 8:15 am – 9:30 am http://webtv.un.org/watch/people-with-communication-disability-speak-up-for-inclusion-and-participation-how-the-implementation-of-the-crpd-and-the-sdgs-can-support-this-right-cosp12-side-event/6047514452001/
o CSU media release https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/charles-sturt-expert-advocates-at-un-for-communication-rights.
o Link to International Communication Project media release: According to the ASHA Director of Public Relations, the ICP media release was picked up by 160 outlets worldwide and had an audience reach of 73 million.
o The presentation was based on a special issue of guest edited by Professor Sharynne McLeod: Communication rights special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (IJSLP). Her introductory article "Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all" has been viewed 14,806 times to date with an altmetric score of 169. 

 Grants

• Professor Sharynne McLeod and Dr Sarah Verdon (CSU) have been undertaking the following Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant (2018-2020): Australian children's speech and language competence (DP180102848). https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/overview 
• Professor Sharynne McLeod and Nicole McGill (CSU) worked with local speech pathologists to complete the following NSW Health Translational Research Grant (2017-2019): Waiting for speech pathology: Device versus advice. The NSW Health investigators on the team were: Emily Davis, Katrina Rohr, Angela Roberts and Katherine Miller o They won the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Best Research Poster Award, have published three journal articles, and have developed a free parent website as part of the grant: https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/speech-pathology

University of Iceland Science and Innovation Prize

Congratulations to Dr. Jóhanna Einarsdóttir, Dr Thora Masdottir (Þóra Másdóttir), Dr Kate Crowe, Þóra Sæunn Úlfsdóttir, Kriselle Jónsdóttir, Ewa Czaplewska, and Sigurgrimur Skúlason who received a University of Iceland Science and Innovation Prize (Vísinda- og nýsköpunarverðlaun Háskóla Íslands) in the category Society tonight (9pm Australian time).
https://english.hi.is/university/the_universitys_science_and_innovation_award

Here is the description of the event from Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland:

The University of Iceland Science and Innovation Prizes will be presented on Tuesday 12 May...The prizes, previously called the University of Iceland Applied Science Prize, are now awarded for the 22nd time. The competition is run as a collaboration between the University of Iceland, the New Business Venture Fund, Árnason|Faktor, Innovation Center Iceland and the Technology Transfer Office Iceland.

A total of 38 valid applications were submitted this year, which is a record number. Prizes will be awarded for the best ideas in four categories: Health, Technology and Progress, Society, and the Motivational Prize. An overall competition winner will also be selected from among the prize recipients in the above categories.

Due to current restrictions on mass gatherings and the two metre rule, only the prize recipients and the evaluation committee will physically attend this year, but the ceremony will be live-streamed online: https://livestream.com/hi/visindaognyskopunarverdlaunhi

On this occasion, Martin Ingi Sigurðsson, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, will also give a talk on the project that medical student Halldór Bjarki Ólafsson completed under his supervision, which won the President of Iceland's Innovation Award at the beginning of the year.