February 26, 2021

Launch of the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework (RCF)

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Tonight I attended the online launch of the World Health Organization's Rehabilitation Competency Framework (RCF) . I was honoured to be...

Belinda's PhD team

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I am on Belinda Downey's team to support the finalisation and submission of her PhD. We met today to discuss her timeline and our roles ...

Farewell to CSU colleagues

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Today we farewelled two colleagues from the School of Teacher Education: Dr Helen Logan and Dr Julie Lancaster. I have worked with both of t...

Authorship guidelines for PhD students

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Here are the authorship guidelines for PhD students from CSU's policy documents https://policy.csu.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00272%20 R...
February 25, 2021

Iceland: Earthquakes and northern lights

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I love sharing the world with my colleagues. Today Kate Crowe, who is living in Iceland, gave a presentation to people in Belgium in the mid...
February 24, 2021

Venus International Women’s Award

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I have just learned that I have received the following award: Venus International Foundation ( https://www.venusinfo.org/ ) Award forDisting...

Profiles of linguistic multi-competence in Vietnamese-English speakers

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The following manuscript has just been accepted for publication. It presents work from Study 1 undertaken by our VietSpeech team: Wang, C.,...

Oxford Children’s Language Australia (OCLA)

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Recently, Oxford University Press invited me to be a member of Oxford Children’s Language Australia (OCLA). Education Today just published t...
February 23, 2021

Early Childhood Research Group: First meeting for 2021

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Today was our first Early Childhood Research Group for 2021. We reviewed the excellent feedback from our ECV2020 conference - then planned f...

Rejoinder submitted

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This morning I submitted my rejoinder for an Australian Research Council grant application. I submitted the original application in November...

CSU orientation week

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This week is CSU's orientation week - the week before the academic year begins. We are fortunate that we have few COVID restrictions at ...
February 22, 2021

"Getting Ready for School the Deadly Way"

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 The series of videos titled "Getting Ready for School the Deadly Way" are a great resource. They address the following topics:  ...

Van's PhD

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Dr Van Tran is working hard to complete her second PhD this semester. She is currently analysing data for paper 5. We had another productive...
February 19, 2021

Information from Vietnam's 2019 census

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My colleagues in Vietnam have just shared the following information with me from the 2019 census in Vietnam:  Infographic of 20 major indica...

International Mother Language Day

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Happy International Mother Language Day for 21st February (which aptly is also Helen’s birthday). https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/mothe...

World Health Organization or Organisation?

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I am continually surprised to see the Australian media write "World Health Organisation".  From the WHO Style Guide: "World H...
February 16, 2021

Launch of the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework

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In 2019 I was on a Delphi panel to provide advice into the development of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Rehabilitation Competenc...
February 12, 2021

Chúc mừng năm mới and Guò nián hǎo" (过年好)

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Chúc mừng năm mới 过年好 Guò nián hǎo Happy Lunar New Year - the Year of the Ox! In 2019, Kate Margetson begain working for VietSpeech on Lunar...
February 11, 2021

ASHA's Research Tuesday features Crowe and McLeod (2020)

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This week our paper was featured by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for Research Tuesday: Crowe, K., & McLeod, S...
February 10, 2021

Congratulations Prof Kirrie Ballard - Speech Pathology Australia Innovation Award + AMP Tomorrow Maker 2020

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Congratulations to Prof Kirrie Ballard who has won the Speech Pathology Australia Innovation Award 2020 and was named an AMP Tomorrow Maker...