January 28, 2016

Children's Speech: Advertised on Pearson's website

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Elise Baker and I are currently in the final phases of copyediting and page proofing our new book. It has just been advertised on Pearson...
January 15, 2016

Enjoying and learning about Northern Vietnam

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Over the past 2 weeks Ben Pham has shown me and my family some of Northern Vietnam. Here are a few photos demonstrating the diversity, cultu...
January 13, 2016

Charlotte's last day with the Sound Start Study

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Today was Charlotte’s last day on the Sound Start Study. She has been working hard with us for the last two years – and working particularly...

Lecture to the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Hanoi National University of Education

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Today Ben Pham and I gave a lecture at the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Hanoi National University of Education. Their report about ...
January 6, 2016

Research on the Vietnamese Speech Assessment

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Ben Pham has been trialling the research version of the Vietnamese Speech Assessment (Pham, Le, & McLeod, 2015) in Ha Noi as part of he...
January 5, 2016

Data collection in Ha Noi

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Over the next few days I will accompany Ben Pham to preschools in Ha Noi, Vietnam where she has been collecting data for her PhD. The aim of...

Visiting Ha Noi's speech therapist

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Today I had the opportunity to visit Dr Oanh, one of only two speech therapists in Ha Noi (a city of over 7 million people!). Dr Oanh is a c...
January 4, 2016

Hanoi National University of Education: Faculty of Special Education

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Ben Pham, my PhD student, is a lecturer in special education at Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE). Today I had the opportunity t...
January 2, 2016

Museum of Ethnography in Ha Noi

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Today Ben and I visited the Museum of Ethnography in Ha Noi. This excellent museum celebrates the cultures and languages of the 54 ethnic gr...
January 1, 2016

Temple of Literature in Ha Noi

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The Temple of Literature in Ha Noi is the site of Viet Nam's first university, founded in 1070. It contains a series of gates that gradu...
December 17, 2015

Congratulations Charlotte

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Today Charlotte learned that she achieved first class honours. Congratulations Charlotte!

RIPPLE newsletter containing loads of stories about our team

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The latest RIPPLE newsletter contains loads of stories about our team, including an interview with Helen Blake, and awards won by Sarah Mas...

Graduation congratulations continue

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Today my son graduated from CSU and my daughter received her high school results. I am very proud of both of them: their achievements to dat...
December 16, 2015

RIPPLE PhD graduates

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Today the RIPPLE PhD graduates (Dr Tina Stratigos, Dr Sarah Verdon, and Dr Tamara Cumming) were congratulated by the Vice Chancellor (Prof...

Sarah V's PhD graduation

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Today Sarah Verdon graduated with her PhD from Charles Sturt University. She was announced the winner of the Faculty of Education Outstandi...
December 8, 2015

A contrastive analysis of two Fiji English dialects

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Suzanne's next journal article for her PhD has been accepted for publication today: Hopf, S. C. & McLeod, S. ...
December 2, 2015

2015 PhD, postdoc, and honours community of scholars meeting in Sydney

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Almost all of my research students live in different cities from one another (and myself) including Sydney, Newcastle, Albury and Nadi (Fiji...
December 1, 2015

Sound Start Study team meetings with Dr Yvonne Wren

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Over the past 3 weeks, Dr Yvonne Wren has been visiting Australia sponsored by our Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (Sound Start ...
November 28, 2015

Yvonne Wren's visit to Bathurst

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Yvonne Wren has spent almost a week visiting Bathurst as part of our ARC Discovery Grant (Sound Start Study). It has been a pleasure to shar...
November 27, 2015

Sound Start Study visit to NSW Department of Education Rural and Distance Education Unit

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Dr Yvonne Wren from the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and University of Bristol visited the NSW Department of Education ...