Women in Academia

Oct 18 2020 7
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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.

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Andrea Sander-Montant, M.A. student at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Oct 18 2020 25 mins  
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

Dr Monica Barbir, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)

Sep 15 2020 34 mins  
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 ultima

Dr Celia Harris, the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Sep 06 2020 16 mins  
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

Dr Jovana Pejovic, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab, Portugal

Aug 30 2020 16 mins  
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

Dr Ruth Brookman, Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University

Aug 23 2020 28 mins  
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 materna

Dr Marieke van Heugten, Assistant Professor and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the University at Buffalo, USA

Aug 16 2020 12 mins  
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 Uni

Dr Sabrina Thurman, Assistant Professor and Director of the Infant Development Lab at Elon University, USA

Aug 09 2020 20 mins  
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 h

Dr Julie Beadle on Research Journey from Canada to Australia and on the Exciting Research in the Field of Cognitive Hearing Science

Aug 02 2020 22 mins  
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 tr

Stacey Sherwood on Academia, Research, and How to Write Sci-fi Novels while Doing a PhD

Jul 26 2020 31 mins  
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.

Prof. Dr Sho Tsuji, Principal Investigator at The University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)

Jul 19 2020 15 mins  
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 i