Our people
The Research Faculty are academic members of staff internal to the University of Canterbury, currently spanning four Colleges. NZILBB encourages interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration between these memers of different Departments and also with our international and domestics partners.
Megan McAuliffe
Deputy NZILBB Director
Leader of the Language and Ageing Theme
Donald Derrick
Senior Lecturer
NZILBB Researcher
NZILBB Research Faculty
The Research Faculty are academic members of staff internal to the University of Canterbury, currently spanning four Colleges. NZILBB encourages interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration between these memers of different Departments and also with our international and domestics partners.
Faculty from the Department of Communication Disorders
Megan McAuliffe
Dean of Postgraduate Research
Catherine Moran
Amokapua Akoranga
Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Catherine Theys
Senior Lecturer
MSLP Programme Director & Year 1 Coordinator
Faculty from the Department of Linguistics
Lynn Clark
Senior Lecturer / Linguistics Head of Department
Faculty from the School of Literacies and Arts in Education
Faculty from Aotahi - School of Maori and Indigenous Studies
Jeanette King
Professor / Acting Head of School - Aotahi / Leader of the Bilingualism Theme
Faculty from the Heath Sciences Centre
Dr Laurie McLay
Associate Professor
Programme Coordinator - Specialist Teaching
Faculty from the Human Interface Technology Lab
Faculty from the Department of Psychology
Ewald Neumann
Associate Professor
200-Level Co-ordinator
Faculty from The Champion Centre
Dr Susan Foster-Cohen
Adjunct Associate Professor
Faculty from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Andy Cockburn
Professor
Postgraduate Co-ordinator
Faculty from the College of Education
Gail Gillon
Director of the UC Child Well-being Research Institute
Professor
Faculty from the School of Humanities
Jack Copeland
Distinguished Professor
Head of Department
Diane Proudfoot
Professor
Honours & Postgraduate Co-ordinator
Faculty from the School of Law
Prof Robin Palmer
Director of Clinical Legal Studies
Faculty from the School of Teacher Education
Emma Parnell
Institute Manager, NZILBB
Adjunct Fellows
Adjunct Professor at NZILBB: Professor Janet Pierrehumbert
Professor Pierrehumbert is a Professor of Language Modeling at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre
Pierrehumbert’s research uses experimental and computational methods to study the sound structure of language. Her current research, funded by the Studying Complex Systems Program of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, uses agent-based modeling of speaker populations to model the formation of language sound systems in individuals and populations. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pierrehumbert has recently been elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
Professor Pierrehumbert visits NZILBB on an annual basis.
Adjunct Professor at NZILBB: Dr Donal Sinex
Donal Sinex is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education and previously a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. His research examines the auditory processing of speech and other complex sounds. Sinex’s research, funded in the US by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), has addressed the representation of sound by single auditory neurons, computational methods for the segregation of competing sounds, and factors that affect the identification of speech in noise. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
NZILBB Strategic Fellows
NZILBB has established a Strategic Fellows initiative where fellows can come and work with members of NZILBB for up to 4 weeks and we will contribute to the cost of airfare and accommodation. This is a contestable funding round where NZILBB calls for applications.
NZILBB Strategic Fellows 2016
- Deryk Beal - Bloorview Research Institute & University of Toronto
- Sarah Hawkins - University of Cambridge
- Esther Janse - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Malt Joshi - Texas A & M University
NZILBB Strategic Fellows 2015
- Christopher Dromey - Brigham Young University
- Erez Levon - Queen Mary University of London
- Joan Bresnan - Stanford University
- Maarten De Vos - University of Oxford
- Patrycja Strycharczuk - Queen Margaret University
NZILBB Strategic Fellows 2012-2013
- Andy Wedel - University of Arizona
- Cathi Best - University of Western Sydney
- Kevin Shockley - University of Cincinnati
- Julia Evans - San Diego State University
Visitors
2020
- Yoon Mi Oh (Anjou University)
2019
- Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford University)
- Yoon Mi Oh (Anjou University)
- Simon Stein (Dusseldorf University)
- Tamara Rathcke (University of Kent)
2018
- Peter Racz (Bristol University)
- Holly Dann (University of Sheffield)
- Nivedita Mani (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
- Matthias Heyne (Boston University)
2017
- Peter Racz (Bristol University)
- Marton Soskuthy (University of York)
- Lotte Eijk (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Elske van Raaphorst (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Gerry Docherty (Griffith University)
- Anita Szakay (Macquarie University)
- Paul Foulkes (The University of York)
- Jane Stuart Smith (Glasgow University)
- Cathi Best (Western Sydney University)
- Sarah Hawkins (Cambridge University)
2016
- Marton Soskuthy (University of York)
- Paul Foulkes (University of York)
- Julia Zimmermann (University of Dusseldorf)
- Siene Moris (KU Leuven)
- Deryk Beal (University of Toronto and Bloorview Research Institute)
- Simon Todd (Stanford University)
- Esther Janse (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Malt Joshi (Texas A&M University)
- Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge)
- Abby Walker (Virginia Tech)
- Donal Sinex
2015
- Anne Cutler (University of Western Sydney)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University)
- Jeremy Needle (Northwestern University)
- Gareth Baxter (University of Aviero)
- Harald Baayen (University of Tubingen)
- Donna Rose Addis (The University of Auckland)
- Reece Roberts (The University of Auckland)
- Michaela Meaney (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern)
- Christopher Dromey (Brigham Young University)
- Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
- Patrycja Strycharczuk (Queen Margaret University
- Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Maarten De Vos (Oxford University)
2014
- Katie Drager (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
- Paul Foulkes (University of York)
- Sarah Kollmorgen (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern)
- Marton Soskuthy (University of York)
- Anne Cutler (University of Western Sydney)
- Simon Todd (Stanford)
- Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)
2013
- Cathi Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratory, University of Western Sydney)
- Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
- Anne Cutler (University of Western Sydney)
- Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
- Bronwen Evans (University College London)
- Paul Foulkes (University of York)
- Vince Hughes (University of York)
- Susan Duncan (McNeill Gesture Lab)
- Ghada Khattab (Newcastle University)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern)
- Alex Schumacher (Northwestern)
- Jason Shaw (MARCS Auditory Laboratory, University of Western Sydney)
- Anita Szakay (University of British Columbia)
2012
- Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia)
- Barry Hughes (Auckland University)
- Vince Hughes (University of York)
- Karsten Koch (University of Calgary)
- Victor Kuperman (McMaster University)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern)
- Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)
- Andy Wedel (University of Arizona)
2011
- Cathi Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratory, University of Western Sydney)
- Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Dominique Estival (University of Western Sydney)
- Paul Foulkes (University of York)
- Alistair Knott (Otago University)
- Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern)
- Ingo Plag (Universität Siegen)
- Jason Shaw (MARCS Auditory Laboratory, University of Western Sydney)
- Anita Szakay (University of British Columbia)
- Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia)
- Abby Walker (Ohio State University)
- Paul Warren (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Catherine Watson (Auckland University)
2010
- Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
- Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
- Anita Szakay (University of British Columbia)
Interns
The Institute has hosted several interns and placement students who come to work with us for up to nine months.
Past interns
- Holly Dann (University of Sheffield)
- Siene Moris (KU Leuven)
- Sarah Kollmorgen (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern)
- Michaela Meaney (Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern)
- Hannah Shelton (University of Bath placement student)
- Milda Norkute (University of Bath placement student)
- Bianca Sieveritz (University of Osnabrueck)
- Helene Mouchel (University of Bath placement student)
- Erica Gold (University of York)
- Jenna Chaffee (Cornell)
- Mona Spaeth (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich)
- Lotte Eijk (Radbound University)
- Elske van Raaphorst (Radbound University)