Many women are faced with challenge to balance the career and family life. This could be challenging regardless of profession, but what about the women doing a research. In "Women in Academia" podcast, host Irena Lovcevic interviews female researchers to understand what are the challenges that women in academia are facing and how to overcome these challenges. The goal is to share the stories of inspirational women in Academia and to provide a helpful tips on thriving in both academic and everyday life.
Andrea Sander-Montant, M.A. student at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Today it's great to have Andrea Sander-Montant on the podcast. Andrea is an M.A. student at Concordia University in Montreal Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein at the Infant Research Lab. Andrea is interested in developmental psychology with a special focus on early language development and bilingualism. Listen to this episode to hear more on how being raised in bilingual family influenced Andrea's exciting research on bilingualism as well as Andrea's great insights on...
16 Sept 2020
Dr Monica Barbir, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)
Today it's great to have Dr Monica Barbir on the podcast. Dr Barbir is the Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) BabyLab, University of Tokyo. She is interested in the cognitive mechanisms that make learning language easy for babies but hard for adults. Her goal is to innovate novel language learning methods that would ultimately allow adults to learn language as well as babies. Dr Barbir studied language acquisition at the University of Tor...
7 Sept 2020
Dr Celia Harris, the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University
Today it's great to have Dr Celia Harris on the podcast. Dr Harris is the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, based at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University. She completed her PhD at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, in 2010. In her PhD research, she studied ways of extending laboratory paradigms to study social aspects of memory in ecologically valid ways. Dr Harris's research focus...
31 Aug 2020
Dr Jovana Pejovic, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab, Portugal
Today it's great to have Dr Jovana Pejovic on the podcast. Dr Pejovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab. She completed her PhD studies in 2019 at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain, with a thesis on the development of audiovisual speech processing in monolingual and bilingual infants. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Pejovic's research journey, her research on the audiovisual speech processing in infants...
24 Aug 2020
Dr Ruth Brookman, Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University
Today it's great to have Dr Ruth Brookman on the podcast. Dr Brookman is an Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Technology and Ageing at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. She recently completed her PhD at the MARCS, examining depression and anxiety in the postnatal period with specific focus on the examination of maternal speech, the mother-infant interaction and infant developmental outcomes. The overall aim of this research was to exa...
17 Aug 2020
Dr Marieke van Heugten, Assistant Professor and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the University at Buffalo, USA
Today it's great to have Dr Marieke van Heugten on the podcast. Dr van Heugten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She completed her B.A. and M.Sc. at Radboud University in the Netherlands before moving to Canada where she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. In August ...
10 Aug 2020
Dr Sabrina Thurman, Assistant Professor and Director of the Infant Development Lab at Elon University, USA
Today it's great to have Dr Sabrina Thurman on the podcast. Dr Thurman is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Elon University and Director of the Infant Development Lab. She received her B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr Thurman studies how infants acquire new motor skills, postures, and forms of locomotion, and how infants learn to use their bodies for ...
3 Aug 2020
Dr Julie Beadle on Research Journey from Canada to Australia and on the Exciting Research in the Field of Cognitive Hearing Science
Today it's great to have Dr Julie Beadle on the podcast. Dr Beadle has completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Her PhD thesis was focused on cognitive ageing and hearing under difficult circumstances. Specifically, she investigated how cognitive processes such as attention and memory are used when the elderly try to perceive speech in difficult listening circumstances, as well as how and when visual cues may aid understanding. ...
27 Jul 2020
Stacey Sherwood on Academia, Research, and How to Write Sci-fi Novels while Doing a PhD
Today it's great to have Stacey Sherwood on the podcast. Stacey has now completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Stacey's PhD thesis is focused on the relationship between language and society. Specifically, she investigated the way people learn and use language to construct identities, stances and personas. By conducting an experimental series of production- and perception-based studies across two languages, Japanese and Austra...
20 Jul 2020
Prof. Dr Sho Tsuji, Principal Investigator at The University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)
Today it's great to have Prof. Dr Sho Tsuji on the podcast. Dr Tsuji is the principal investigator at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) BabyLab, University of Tokyo. She is fascinated by the question of why babies are so good at learning language. She came to University of Tokyo after studying Psychology and doing research on language acquisition in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the USA. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Tsuji's research on lang...
13 Jul 2020
Jenny Zeng on Speech and Music Perception in Infants and Cognitive Advantages of Bilingualism
Today it's great to have Jenny Zeng on the podcast. Jenny is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Jenny's PhD thesis focuses on the infants' cue weighting in speech and music rhythm perception. Stress-timed languages contain lexical stress that is made up of relative stronger cues such as pitch, intensity and duration, which listeners use to segment/group information, and the perception of which is dependent on the rhythmical na...
6 Jul 2020
Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari, Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute BabyLab, Western Sydney University
Today it's great to have Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari on the podcast. Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari is a Researcher in Infant Studies at the MARCS BabyLab, Western Sydney University. She investigates quantitative and qualitative differences in infant-directed speech (IDS) and the role of IDS in supporting early language development. Her main interests are investigating social-emotional and language development in children from 0-5 years of age, without or with hearing loss. Other research interests ...
29 Jun 2020
Maddie Radnan on Time Travelling with Technology
Today it's great to have Maddie Radnan on the podcast. Maddie is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Maddie's PhD thesis focuses on the Time Travelling with Technology (TTT), which is a technology-based program for promoting relationships and engagement in aged care. TTT is an immersive, dynamic and interactive interface that utilises Google Liquid Galaxy to explore worldly landmarks and locations. In an aged care facility, TTT...
22 Jun 2020
Dr Marina Jovic, Assistant Professor at The American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Today it's great to have Dr Marina Jovic on the podcast. Marina is an Assistant Professor at The American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. She completed her PhD studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia on "Pragmaticalization of modal verbs could and would in English language from 1800 until present day". Since being from warn torn country, Marina has faced and has successfully overcame many challenges on her journey to Academia by being persistent and never giving up. Listen to thi...
15 Jun 2020
Yanping Li - The importance of strong motivation and hard work in overcoming challenges on the research journey
Today it's great to have Yanping Li on the podcast. Yanping is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Yanping's PhD thesis focuses on effects of high versus low variability training on second language acquisition of Mandarin tones. In this study two training methods (high vs. low variability) are being examined to evaluate which approach will better assist native English speakers in learning Mandarin tones by taking accented Manda...
8 Jun 2020
Gloria Maria Pino Escobar, from a Lawyer in Peru to a Researcher in Australia
Today it's great to have Gloria Maria Pino Escobar on the podcast. Gloria is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Gloria's PhD thesis focuses on bridging the gap between domain-general cognitive processes and word learning in monolingual and bilingual children. The results of the present study will demonstrate individual language learning strategies that can be used to leverage vocabulary learning in a tailor-made fashion. Befor...
1 Jun 2020
Interview with Emily Tan, U.S. Postgraduate Fulbright Research Fellow
Today it's great to have Emily Tan on the podcast. Emily Tan is U.S. Postgraduate Fulbright Research Fellow at MARCS BabyLab, Western Sydney University, where she conducted research on the role of lullabies in infant language development. Prior to visiting MARCS, Emily served as a research assistant in Dr. Elizabeth Spelke's infant studies laboratory at Harvard University, where she cultivated an appreciation for developmental methods and research questions. Emily's current areas of interest ...
31 May 2020
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