MARCS Monday Meeting (MMM):Professor Michelle Trudgett

Event Name MARCS Monday Meeting (MMM):Professor Michelle Trudgett
Start Date 21st Oct 2019 11:00 am
End Date 21st Oct 2019 12:00 pm
Duration 1 hour
Description
Trudgett 8:10Please join us at the next MMM as Professor Michelle Trudgett presents the Draft 2020-2023 Indigenous Strategy currently open for consultation. This will be followed by presentations by Mark Richards and Juqiang Chen.

Speaker: Professor Michelle Trudgett, Pro Vice-Chancellor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education, Strategy and Consultation

Title: Draft 2020-2023 Indigenous Strategy

Biography: Professor Michelle Trudgett, is a proud Wiradjuri woman recognised for her significant contribution to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Professor Trudgett’s research, particularly her doctoral thesis, has been a catalyst for policy change aimed at increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who enrol in postgraduate study and her outstanding contributions saw her named the National NAIDOC Scholar of the Year in 2018. In her current role at WSU, Professor Trudgett is deeply passionate about ensuring that all students and staff at the University have the opportunity to meaningfully engage with Indigenous Knowledges.

Speaker: Mark Richards, Associate Research Fellow in Language Technologies for Education

Title: Technology, Language learning & Communication

Speaker: Juqiang Chen, PhD Candidate

Title: Cognitive factors in Thai-naïve Mandarin speakers’ imitation of Thai lexical tones, conference paper presented at Interspeech 2019 in Graz, Austria

We thank you for your continued attendance at the MMM's.  Let's keep the momentum going.

MARCS staff and students are reminded that all meetings and workshops have an important role in building and maintaining the sense of community which is central to the success of MARCS as a cooperative and energetic research institute.  Your attendance is both welcomed and expected.

The zoom ID is: 627 146 998. Link to zoom https://uws.zoom.us/j/627146998