CSU Early Career Researcher (ECR) Grant Scheme

Congratulations to the successful applicants in the Charles Sturt University Early Career Researcher (ECR) Grant Scheme (AUD $25,000). The following people that I mentored have been informed this morning that they were successful: 

• Suzanne Hopf
• Shukla Sikder
  
• Heather Boetto 
• Brian Moore
• Jess Sears
  

SOTE CV writing workshop - March 2020

Today a group of staff from the CSU School of Teacher Education met with me to discuss their CVs. It was a supportive discussion to ensure that all of their experiences can be categorised and considered within an academic context, and to imagine next steps/opportunities to assist their growth. This group first met in February and will meet again in a month.

Jenny, Paul, Brian, Andi, Jess, Belinda

CSU Early Career Researcher Mentoring Grant for Dr Michelle Brown

Dr Michelle Brown (my postdoc) received a CSU Faculty of Arts and Education Early Career Researcher Mentoring Funding Scheme to attend the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention (ASHA) in Orlando, FL with me over the past week. There were over 15,000 people in attendance. While in Orlando,  Michelle and I:

• presented seminars to staff and students in the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Central Florida as a guest of Professor Jack Ryalls
• presented two papers on parent-child book reading, one of which was profiled by ASHA in their US media release
• attended the Academic Researcher Meeting on Wednesday evening, where Dr Kate Crowe and I received the Editors’ Award for our article in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
• attended the opening session, awards ceremony
• attended presentations on research (e.g., grant writing)
• networked with many influential people including 2021 ASHA president Professor Lynn Williams, ASHA CEO Dr Arlene Pietranton, ex-ASHA president Tommy Robinson, etc.

I believe that networking at the ASHA convention was a significant step to launch Michelle's international career as a key researcher in our field.

Michelle with Prof Jack Ryalls at University of Central Florida

Mark Guiberson, Kate Crowe, Michelle Brown, Sheila Degotadi, Sharynne McLeod

Michelle presented two papers, one that was profiled in the US media

Michelle chatting with ASHA CEO Dr Arlene Pietranton about her experience at the ASHA convention

Sharynne, Dr. Silvia Martinez, Dr. Tommy Robinson, Dr Michelle Brown, Dr Helen Blake

Curriculum vitae workshop #2

Today I ran another curriculum vitae writing workshop for academic staff in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. It follows on from the one I ran for my SLM team a few weeks ago: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/02/curriculum-vitae-workshop.html

I enjoy enabling academics to use their CVs to envision future possibilities and goals.

Curriculum vitae workshop

Today I ran a workshop for the early career researchers in the SLM team to support them to compile/write a curriculum vitae. We discussed how it is good to have a master file that you constantly update, then select items when you are required to submit a CV for different purposes.
Each participant also considered example CVs from the SLM team in order to look for gaps/opportunities to add to their own CVs. It was a very productive and collaborative session.