Professorial Representative on Faculty Board

Recently I have stepped down from being the Professorial Representative on Faculty Board for the Faculty of Arts and Education. I received this email today from Professor John McDonald, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts and Education 

Thanks for letting me know about your decision to step down from your position on the Faculty Board due to other commitments. I have really appreciated your considered and informed contributions at the meetings, and especially your advocacy for our research. You have also championed our HDR students and early – and mid-career researchers. 

Thanks and best wishes, John

Farewell to Lisa McLean

 Lisa McLean is leaving CSU after 16 years. She has been such an important colleague at CSU over so many years. She has been an essential person on my PhD students' journeys (especially the flourish of your big stamp when they submitted their PhDs), a wonderful business manager for RIPPLE, and a superb colleague within the Faculty of Arts and Education. I will miss seeing her around CSU - and wish her all the best in your new and exciting role in Melbourne. Here are some blogposts featuring Lisa: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search?q=Lisa+McLean

Here is her farewell card from CSU: https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/LNQUzSYC

https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/LNQUzSYC?rid=04d54f26#view

Recognising Excellence Daily: Thanks from the Provost

CSU has a process called RED: Recognising Excellence Daily. Today I recieved a RED award from the Provost thanking me for my work on the Professorial Promotions Committee. It was a privilege to serve on the committee. CSU employs some fantastic people.

On behalf of the University and Academic Portfolio, and as Chair of the Academic Promotions Professorial Committee, I wanted to personally thank you for the valuable contributions you made to this year’s Academic Promotions process. As you are well aware, Academic Promotions provide an important means of encouraging and recognising staff development and rewarding those who have demonstrated and sustained excellence. The significant time and support you have committed to this process not only benefits our academics and their careers, it also strengthens our University, the reputation of our University, and our ability to continue achieving our mission and changing the lives of our students and communities for the better. This year we had a terrific outcome, with 78 per cent of applications successful. This is an impressive 15 per cent increase on last year and could not have been achieved without the hard work and dedication of our Promotions Committees. 

I trust you enjoyed the process and I hope you will continue to contribute to our Promotions Committees in the years to come. 

Kind regards John Germov, Provost

 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation donations

Today I received this email:

Contributions have been given to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation by: 

• Karen Beverly-Ducker
• Julie Masterson
• Sharon Moss 
• Tommie L. Robinson, Jr. 
• Nancy Swigert 

in recognition of your receiving Honors of the Association.

Thank you to each of the donors - I know that the ASHFoundation will use this money well.

Thank you to the SLM team for your support in 2019

Thank you so much to the following 20 people who have been part of the SLM team and have provided magnificent support throughout 2019

• Helen Blake - PhD student 
• Dr Michelle Brown - Postdoc 
• Anna Cronin - PhD student 
• Dr Kate Crowe - Research fellow 
• Dr Suzanne Hopf - Colleague
• Kylie Huynh - VietSpeech Research assistant 
• Kate Margetson - VietSpeech Project officer
• Dr Sarah Masso - Colleague 
• Holly McAlister - Honours student 
• A/Prof Jane McCormack - Colleague
• Nicole McGill - PhD student 
• Dr Ben Pham - Research fellow 
• Olivia Richards - StoryBabies Research assistant 
• Jake Sheader - Research assistant 
• Lily To - VietSpeech Research assistant 
• Dr Van Tran - PhD student 
• Dr Sarah Verdon - VietSpeech Co-investigator 
• Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang - VietSpeech Project officer

and special thanks to:

• Donna Bateup - SOTE Admin 
• David McLeod - Super supporter 
• and all of my colleagues across the world

Our work together means we have to trust each other in many ways as we grow to be better researchers, better people, and to create new knowledge that will benefit the world.

Finally, thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, NSW Health, and the Australian Research Council for funding our research in 2019.

2019 Christmas tree filled with memories from around the world