CVC is honoured to have adjunct researchers and professors join us from across the world. Today we welcomed some of our new adjuncts this morning:
Welcome to Prof Karla Washington (Canada/Jamaica), Dr Jinjin (Helen) Lu (China), Dr Josephine Bampoe (Ghana), Matthew Stapleton, Dr Amanda Niland, Dr Olivia Karaolis
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| Dr Zinnia Mevawalla, Prof Sharynne McLeod, A/Prof Kathy Cologon and some of our new CVC adjuncts |
While in Brisbane this weekend I had a lovely time catching up with Emeritus Prof Lindy McAllister and discussing our collaboration and research in Vietnam. We also shared stories of our colleague Lucy Shanahan who passed away a few weeks ago.
It was a pleasure to have Matt Stapleton visit CVC this week. Matt has collaborated with colleagues at CSU on an ARC project Babies in Groups and his work is centred on infants’ groups, communication, belonging and participation, and how research sits alongside day-to-day practice in his two early childhood education and care services in NSW. We look forward to ongoing conversations and collaborations.
Here are some of his publications:
Stapleton, M., Bradley, B. S. & Selby, J. (2025). Adopting a Group-Based Approach to Infant Sociability, Peer Relations and Wellbeing. In G. Quinones, A. Delaune (Eds.). Wellbeing for Infants and Toddlers in Education and Care. Springer.
Bradley, B. S., Selby, J., & Stapleton, M. (2024). Babies in Groups: Expanding Imaginations. Oxford University Press.
Today I visited University of Technology Sydney. I am an Adjunct Associate Professor at UTS, and was able to catch up with colleagues and students as well as hold a meeting with CSU colleagues to progress some of our current research. I was thrilled to learn that Prof Bronwyn Hemsley has just received the UTS Vice Chancellor's UTS Medal for Research Impact 2023.
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| Prof Emma Power, Kate Margetson (CSU), Prof Sharynne McLeod (CSU), Prof Bronwyn Hemsley (UTS), Dr Helen Blake (UTS and CSU) |
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| Congratulations Prof Bronwyn Hemsley! |
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| I enjoyed meeting year 2 UTS students: Annushka and Suruthi |
I am very honoured to oversee a number of excellent adjunct staff at CSU.
Recently we have welcomed three new appointments:
Information about adjunct appointments is here: https://www.csu.edu.au/division/people-culture/current-staff/recruitment-and-appointment/visiting-and-adjunct/adjunct-appointments
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| Dr Olebeng Mahura |
Today I had a wonderful conversation with Dr Olebeng Mahura from South Africa who has agreed to become an Adjunct Research Fellow at CSU. I was an examiner of Dr Mahura's Masters' thesis a long time ago and have admired and quoted her work over the years. It will be wonderful to work more closely with her in this new role.
Here are some of Olebeng's publications:
Mahura, O. O., & Pascoe, M. (2016). The acquisition of Setswana segmental phonology in children aged 3.0–6.0 years: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18(6), 533–549. https://doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2015.1126639
Pascoe, M., Mahura, O., & Le Roux, J. (2018). South African English speech development: Preliminary data from typically developing preschool children in Cape Town. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 32(12), 1145-1161. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2018.1510985
Pascoe, M., Mahura, O., & Rossouw, K. (2019). Transcribing and transforming: Towards inclusive, multilingual child speech training for South African speech-language therapy students. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. https://doi.org/10.1159/000499427
Pascoe, M., Rossouw, K., & Mahura, O. (2018). Core vocabulary intervention for an isiXhosa-English speaking child with speech sound difficulties. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 36(4), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2018.1548292
Visiting from Iceland, Marc Volhardt and Kate Crowe will talk about all things Nordic in this presentation. Both Marc and Kate live in Reykjavík and work at the University of Iceland. Marc teaches courses in Icelandic as Second Language, Linguistics, Danish, and Nordic Studies. Kate is a researcher in the Speech-Language Pathology focusing on supporting multilingual education. This presentation will touch on many aspects of life in Iceland and the Nordic countries and particularly on the languages spoken. Come along and learn some new words, and ponder the possibilities for future Nordic collaborations in your work.
I am honoured that my appointment as Honorary Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) will be extended. I look forward to future collaborations with the UTS team. Here is my blogpost from when this position began in 2019 https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/03/adjunct-professor-at-university-of.html
This semester the following people are employed part time on our VietSpeech team (ARC Discovery Grant) (Dr Sarah Verdon and I are the chief investigators)
I also oversee a range of adjuncts who are variously involved in research projects
What a super team! Our work is documented throughout this blog.
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| Dr Ben Phạm with the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, His Excellency Mr Craig Chittick |