Docfest 2024: Kate and Sarah's presentations

Docfest 2024 is Charles Sturt University's Graduate Research Online Conference https://research.csu.edu.au/research-support/researcher-development/docfest/docfest-2024 

Congratulations to my PhD students:

Kate Margetson competed in the Charles Sturt University Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT). Her presentation was compelling - and she was announced as a finalist. She will now travel to Port Macquarie for the CSU finals.

 

Tomorrow, Sarah Bartlett is presenting the following paper: 

Online focus groups for understanding caregivers’ experiences following intervention to support their children’s speech and language 

Background: Understanding caregivers’ experiences can assist professionals to promote caregivers’ active engagement to positively impact child outcomes. 

Aim: To explore caregivers’ experiences and engagement of intervention to support their children’s speech and language. 

Method: Caregivers (n=5) who had recently completed the 16-week Target Word™ intervention attended online focus groups to share their perspectives. Qualitative Interpretative Description (ID) methodology was used to understand their experiences. Transcripts of these focus groups were analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. 

Results: Two themes were identified: (1) caregiver engagement over time and (2) caregiver engagement in learning is individual to each caregiver.

Conclusion: Caregivers experienced unique engagement journeys over the course of the program. Professionals can explicitly facilitate participation at each phase of Target Word™ to promote active engagement for learning and caregiver empowerment to support their children’s language growth.

Classic quote at CSU DocFest - advice for finishing your PhD

At the end of your thesis: "Tweak the topic and aims of your thesis. Paint your bulls-eye around your arrow"

DocFest21

This week Charles Sturt University is hosting DocFest,  a 3-day event to support PhD students and their supervisors. https://docfest.csu.domains/registration/

DocFest21 will offer graduate researchers and their supervisors a range of inspiring and informative sessions and showcase our researchers and their experiences within the CSU community through a range of interactive workshops, panels and breakout sessions. 

Today I presented a session titled: Effective Researcher Workshops: Late Candidature and provided loads of resources to support students to finish their PhDs.

This year the DocFest keynote speakers are:

• Hugh Kearns
• Prof. Inger Mewburn 
• Dr Kathryn Crowe
  
• AProf. Vijay Mallan

We were really proud of Dr Kate Crowe from our Speech-Language-Multilingualism team: https://docfest.csu.domains/making-the-most-of-conferences-for-networking-and-your-research-career/

Making your research journey a safe space to grow, learn, and thrive.
Dr Kathryn Crowe - Keynote Presentation - 26th May. 4:45 - 5:45pm
Kate Crowe shares her personal struggles with anxiety and ‘imposter syndrome’ and how she has overcome them on her journey to become a highly successful researcher in both domestic and international spaces. These spaces are so often at the edges of where we feel comfortable, and where we have the most potential to grow in our research journey. For anyone who has self-doubt or uncertainty about whether you belong in academia, this generous and honest account will inspire and motivate.

DocFest presentation:

Helen Blake and I were invited to present a session at the 2016 Charles Sturt University DocFest titled: Presenting your research and making the most of the conference.

DocFest + 3MT at Charles Sturt University

This week my PhD students (Ben, Helen, Sarah, and Suzanne) have been attending DocFest at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. DocFest brings together research and higher degree students from across the university (either virtually or face-to-face) to share their research and listen to excellent presentations about writing, grants, postdocs, and many other topics. Sarah Masso and Suzanne Hopf presented their PhD research. In addition Sarah Masso came second in the CSU 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Congratulations Sarah!

Suzanne and Helen met in Sydney before DocFest