November 2, 2016

PhD examination in Denmark

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I been one of the PhD examiners for Marit Clausen from the University of Southern Denmark (USD). Her PhD was titled "Phonological devel...
November 1, 2016

Sarah's new job

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Congratulations to Sarah Masso who has accepted a position as Project Officer at the Ingham Institute (https://inghaminstitute.org.au) in So...
October 28, 2016

Multilingual Repertoires and Multilingual Discourse Conference

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This week Suzanne Hopf and I attended the Multilingual Repertoires and Multilingual Discourse Conference held at Western Sydney University ...
October 21, 2016

Endeavour Research Fellowship awarded to Sarah M

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Congratulations to Sarah Masso who has been awarded an Endeavour Research Fellowship for 2017. The list of 2017 award winners is here . Sa...

The German Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS-G): Reliability and validity evidence

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Congratulations to Dr Sandra Neumann and colleagues in Germany who have just had the following article accepted for publication: Neumann, S...
October 13, 2016

Welcome Nicole - my newest PhD student

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Nicole Limbrick is my newest PhD student, who has just accepted a RIPPLE PhD scholarship. She will be co-supervised by Kate Crowe. Nicole co...

Keeping in touch all over the world

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The world is a small place thanks to tools such as Skype and the CSU conference app. This week I have had productive meetings with students...
October 12, 2016

Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Education Evidence Base

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The Australian Government's draft report on the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Education Evidence Base has been released rece...
October 11, 2016

Balancing Research Capacity and Excellence with Professional Engagement

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I was invited by the Research Office at Charles Sturt University to present a 2-hour workshop for mid-career researchers titled "Balanc...
October 7, 2016

Dr Þóra Másdóttir's visit to CSU, Bathurst

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This week Professor Þóra Másdóttir (Thóra Másdóttir) from the University of Iceland and The National Hearing and Speech Institute of Iceland...

Best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource: Highly commended

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The Educational Publishing Awards , organised by the Australian Publishers' Association were held last night. The final book category aw...
September 30, 2016

Anniek's PhD research begins

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 I am co-supervising Anniek van Doornik's PhD research. Her SPEECH study aims to describe the severity of speech sound disorders in 4- t...

Best practice versus possible practice with multilingual children: Liverpool Health Service

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Today Sarah Verdon and I were invited to present a workshop to the 30+ speech pathologists at the Liverpool Health Service in Sydney. The wo...

Trinh Foundation's Facebook post about Children's Speech

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The Trinh Foundation (http://trinhfoundation.org/) have just posted the following Facebook message about Children's Speech https://ww...
September 28, 2016

Crowdfunding research

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Today I attended a presentation at Charles Sturt University titled "Crowdfunding research: Because it takes a village to fund the answe...
September 27, 2016

Presentations from ASHA's research symposium on about Primary Language Impairment in Children with Nonmainstream Language Backgrounds

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I have just learned of these free videos from ASHA's YouTube channel that are from the 24th Research Symposium on Primary Language Impai...
September 26, 2016

Day-to-day hard work with excellent colleagues

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Grear McAdam, Ben Phạm and Linda Harrison in my office Many of my blog posts are about things that happen outside of ...

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conventions

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Today Ben Pham (my PhD student) and I have been invited to serve on the Cultural and Linguistic Diversity topic committee for the 2017 Ameri...
September 25, 2016

A happy day

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This weekend my colleague Audrey Wang, was married. It was a happy day of celebrating with friends from CSU.
September 22, 2016

Anna's Churchill Fellowship report is published

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Anna Cronin has finished her Churchill Fellowship and her report has just been published online here . The aim of her research was: "To...