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Research Seminars

The Faculty of Human Sciences hosts a wide variety of research seminars and workshops as one of its objectives to enhance research culture, to facilitate dissemination of knowledge and to encourage research collaboration.  These workshops and seminars are organised by different departments, units and research centres within the Faculty, and are given by a mix of Faculty staff and invited scholars from within and external to Macquarie University.  All staff and students are welcome to attend these events.  A list of upcoming Faculty research seminars and workshops is compiled, in chronological order, for easy reference.

Topic

Hosting Department/ Unit

Date/ Time/ Venue

Using iPads to teach conference interpreting students
Speakers: A/Prof Jemina Napier, Dr Stanley Song, Sydney Ye - Macquarie University
Linguistics (T&I)
25/6/2012
1pm
W6B 301
AMEP Longitudinal study
Speaker: Dr Agnes Terraschke, Macquarie University		Linguistics
18/6/2012
12pm
W5C 221
Philippines English in Australia
Speaker: Dr Loy Lising, University of Sydney
Linguistics

11/6/2012
12pm
W5C 221

Turkish alphabetization for German learning
Speaker: Victoria Benz, Macquarie University
Linguistics
4/6/2012
12pm
W5C 221
The impact of IELTS in Cambodia
Speaker: Dr Stephen Moore, Macquarie University
Linguistics
28/5/2012
12pm
W5C 221
A semiotic play of facial expressions
Ping Ting, University of New South Wales
Linguistics
21/5/2012
4pm
Delbridge Room
Could 'Imaginative Education' be an effective tool to facilitate success fro Indigenous students?
Speaker: Prof Keiran Egan, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
More details & registration
MQ Learning & Teaching Centre
12/5/2012
9am-3pm
Level 3, MQ Campus Hub
Not 'just what the doctor says': Healthcare interpreting as relational practice
Speaker: George Major, Macquarie University
Linguistics (T & I)
30/4/2012
1pm
W6B 301
Working with metaphor in applied discourse analysis
Speaker: Prof Chris Candlin, Macquarie University
Linguistics
27/4/2012
2.30pm
W5C 221
A novel modulation of Trk B receptor activity by shp-2 in retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma
Speaker: Dr Vivek Gupta
ASAM
13/4/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
The rostro-cadual functional organisation of lateral prefrontal cortex
Speaker: Ben Crittenden, University of Cambridge
CCD
3/4/2012
4.00-5.30pm
C5C 498

What German and Chinese have in common: A neurocognitive perspective on cross-linguistic similarities and differences
Speaker: Prof Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Philipps-Universitat Marburg

CLaS-CCD30/3/2012
2.30pm
C5C 498
Language, sequencing and the human brain: A cross-linguistic perspective
Speaker: Prof Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Philipps-Universitat Marburg
CLaS-CCD
28/3/2012
3.00-4.30pm
C5C 498
GABA and Blycin transmission in spinal cord
Speaker: Dr Karen Aubrey
ASAM
23/3/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
Linguistic diversity and social justice
Speaker: Prof Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University
Linguistics
19/3/2012
12pm
W5C 221
Sociolinguistics of multicultural Tokyo
Speaker: Lisa Fairbrother, Sophia University, Tokyo
Linguistics
13/3/2012
12pm
Delbridge Room
Principles underlying sensory perception and learning
Speaker: Dr Ehsan Arabzadeh		ASAM
16/3/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
The multiple dimensions of video game effects: breaking the "good/bad" dichotomy
Speaker: Prof Doug Gentile, Iowa State University, US
CFRC/ IEC
13/3/2012
1-2pm
X5B 224
Racism in Europe: Humiliation and homogenization
Prof Philomena Essed, Antioch University
Linguistics (CRSI)
2/3/2012
12pm
University Arts Gallery
Working with narrative in applied discourse analysis
Speaker: Prof Chris Candlin, Macquarie University
Linguistics
2/3/2012
3pm
W5C 221
Characterization of the atypical chemokine receptor D6 in experimental closed head injury
Speaker: Dr Tom Woodcook
ASAM
2/3/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
Retinal and cerebral Neurobiology
Speaker: Prof Jonathan Stone
ASAM
24/2/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
Surveillance and/ of nature: Monitoring beyond the human
Speaker: Prof Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada
CCD
23/2/2012
3.30-5.30pm
C5C 498
Cannabinoids: risk factors for a neuregulin 1 mouse model of schizophrenia?
Speaker: Dr Tim Karl guoyan, NorthWest Normal University, China		ASAM17/2/2012
3.30-4.30pm
Building F10A
Developing and evaluating questioning strategies for use with gifted children
Speaker: Ms Rosalind Walsh
CFRC
14/2/2012
1-2pm
X5B 224
Reading acquisition in a transparent orthography
Speaker: Ludo Verhoeven, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
CCD
7/2/2012
4.00-5.30pm
C5C 498
Toddlers' and preschoolers' executive function: Links to prior parent-child relationships
Speaker: A/Prof Annie Bernier, University of Montreal
CFRC
3/2/2012
1-2pm
X5B 224
Improving visual and auditory stimulation events for real-time
Speaker: Johannes Hohne, Berlin Institute of Technology
CCD
17/1/2012
4.00-5.30pm
C5C 498

Please address any questions and requests for further information to:

ALLE research seminars  denise.gassner@students.mq.edu.au
ASAM seminars  marika.heblinski@mq.edu.au
CCD seminars  lesley.mcknight@mq.edu.au
CFRC research seminars  sally.thompson@mq.edu.au
CLaS-CCD seminars  rosemary.eliott@mq.edu.au
CLSL research seminars  annabelle.lukin@.mq.edu.au
TIR research seminars  ctir@ling.mq.edu.au
Education seminars matt.bower@mq.edu.au
IEC seminars  frances.gibson@mq.edu.au
Linguistics seminars  tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au
Psychology seminars  megan.oaten@mq.edu.au

Individual Department and Centre seminar pages