February 28, 2025

Welcome to 2025 - Orientation week at CSU

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This week was orientation week for new students at Charles Sturt University. Emily-Jane Woodhead and I enjoyed meeting the students, staff, ...

SACHL micro-credential/short course

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Today Dr Kate Margetson and I met with the CSU  team led by Nik Ichalkaranje to start the process of the development of a micro-credential a...
February 26, 2025

Congratulations Cathie Matthews

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Congratulations Cathie Matthews who submitted her Masters of Philosophy thesis today. Her thesis is titled "Supporting 2-year-olds’ com...

Learning about Arts Out West's capacity building - including with people with disabilities

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Today Tamara Cumming and I had our first meeting with colleagues at Arts Out West. They have many impressive programs - including many to su...

OAMS Elders Morning Tea to discuss the Little Libraries

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Today Emily-Jane Woodhead and I were honoured to meet with the OAMS Elders for a few hours to discuss our Little Libraries project. They wer...
February 21, 2025

International Mother Tongue Day - meeting with colleagues from Cyprus

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On International Mother Tongue Day (21 February) I had a productive meeting with colleagues from Cyprus and Australia about their chapter ad...
February 20, 2025

Children Draw Playing - Meeting 1

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Eighteen colleagues from across CSU have expressed interest to join our new research project to analyse the drawings created by children in ...
February 19, 2025

Visiting PhD student: Ida Wiik Sætherskar

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It has been a pleasure to host Ida Wiik Sætherskar, a PhD student from Nord University, Norway during this week at the Children's Voices...
February 14, 2025

WHO meeting

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Last night we met with Dr Mel Greaux and Dr Kaloyan Kamenov to present the work we have been doing to prepare our protocols for our research...
February 13, 2025

University medalist!

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Huge congratulations to Dr Kate Margetson who just received this email from the Charles Sturt University Office of Governance and Corporate ...
February 12, 2025

Speech and language therapists' insights into severity of speech sound disorders in children for developing the Speech Sound Disorder Severity Construct

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Congratulations to Anniek Van Doornik, my PhD student at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, who has just had this paper from her PhD acc...

Early Childhood Voices in the news

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Early Childhood Voices. Our new book highlights the diversity and cultures of young children and ways we can listen to and learn from childr...

Important meetings to establish the Children's Voices Centre

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 The Children's Voices Centre began in January 2025 with the appointment of the first group of staff: Director: Sharynne  McLeod Associa...
February 10, 2025

Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds

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 During January we received most of the chapters for our edited book "Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds - Second Edi...
February 7, 2025

Help! How can I support multilingual children? Speech assessment of children’s home language(s) (SACHL)

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Today Dr Kate Margetson and I presented a 2-hour invited seminar titled "Help! How can I support multilingual children? Speech assessme...
February 6, 2025

Congratulations Sarah B

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Congratulations Sarah Bartlett on passing your PhD endorsement requirements. It is exciting that you are able to finalise your ethics applic...

Tasmanian research planning

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It is such a pleasure to collaborate with the team from Catholic Education Tasmania. They are rigorous, responsive, and care for the childre...
February 5, 2025

Discussing research with colleagues in northern Norway

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 A/Prof Kate Crowe and I have been discussing future research collaborations with colleagues from Nord University for some time on the topi...

Future collaborations

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This morning I met with my wonderful colleague from the US - Professor Lynn Williams - to discuss future collaborations. Lynn and I have a r...

Collaboration with the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG)

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 Today A/Prof Tamara Cumming and I met with Lilium Burrow from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) about a potential collaboration with...