Podcast interview - Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

This morning I was interviewed by Noah Secomb, Political Reporter in Canberra for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) for the Pillar to Post podcast. The topic of the podcast was motivated by the Australian government reducing students' HECS debts in parliament yesterday. Noah wanted to discuss more broadly how much should higher education cost by interviewing me as an example of someone who benefited from free higher education and who advocated for my PhD students.

Here is the podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/pillar-to-post/relief-for-student-debts-opens-the-door-to-further-university-reform 

 

IJSLP handover meeting in Chicago

Kirrie Ballard will be commencing as editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology in 2014. She is currently working in the US as part of her ARC Future Fellowship, so we met in Chicago to discuss our Future Fellowships and to have a 4 hour face-to-face handover of the journal.

Collaborations between Future Fellows

Professor Susan Danby from Queensland University of Technology is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Her project is titled "Young children's use of smart technologies in early childhood" and she started in December 2012. It has been wonderful to share experiences with her and to learn from one another about our projects that are centered around young children. We are both in the Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network, so we have many opportunities to share ideas.