Our team

The Children’s Voices Centre brings together a diverse team of passionate researchers who undertake transformative research using interdisciplinary approaches.

We are a team of interdisciplinary researchers who are experts in education, nursing, allied health (speech-language pathology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychology, social work, paramedicine), communications, media, data science, and more.

Children are active co-researchers and participants in designing solutions to personal and societal issues ensuring that children have a direct say in their futures.

Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod

Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod

Centre Director, Children's Voices Centre
smcleod@csu.edu.au
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Tamara Cumming

Associate Professor Tamara Cumming

Associate Director Workforce and Policy, Children’s Voices Centre
tcumming@csu.edu.au
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Kathy Cologon

Dr Kathy Cologon

Associate Director, Children, Families and Communities, Children’s Voices Centre

kcologon@csu.edu.au
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Dr Carolyn Gregoric

Dr Carolyn Gregoric

Research Manager, Children's Voices Centre
cgregoric@csu.edu.au
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Lorraine Bennett

Lorraine Bennett

Senior Administrative Officer, Children's Voices Centre
cvc@csu.edu.au

Affiliated Charles Sturt Staff

Dr Donnah Anderson

Dr Helen L Blake

Research Office

Mrs Tana Cuming

Associate Professor Michael Curtin

Dr Jessamy Davies

Education

Dr Lysa Dealtry

Education

Dr Will Dobud

Dr Belinda Downey

Education

Professor Tina Du

Information and Communication Studies

Jenny Dwyer

Education

Mrs Natalie Ellis

Dr Kate Freire

Katrina Gersbach

Dr Leanne Gibbs

Education

Professor Julian Grant

Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences, Faculty Office, Science and Health

Dr Joanne Grimmond

Kasey Hillyar

Education

Dr Laura Hoffman

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Dr Rachel Hogg

Dr Travis Holland

Dr Suzanne C. Hopf

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Ms Cyrena Hunt-Madden

Associate Professor Brendon Hyndman

Dr Nicola Ivory

Psychology

Janine Krecko

Education

Dr Kiprono Langat

Dr Kate Margetson

Education, Rural Health Research Institute, Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Associate Professor Elizabeth (Libbey) Murray

Education

Professor Dominic O'Sullivan

Dr Isabel Paton

Professor Manohar Pawar

Professor Azizur Rahman

Computing, Mathematics and Engineering

Associate Professor Mehdi Rassafiani

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Ms Zoe Rodwell

Dr Shukla Sikder

Education

Jennifer Simmonds

Dr Lindsay Smith

Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences

Sarah Stenson

Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences

Associate Professor Sarah Verdon

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Dr Deborah Wise

Emily-Jane Woodhead

Rural Health Research Institute

Cherie Zischke

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences

Adjunct Staff

Associate Professor Kathryn (Kate) Crowe

Education; Speech pathology

Dr Marie Ireland

Education; Speech pathology

Dr Michelle Malan

Education; Speech pathology

Dr Nicole McGill

Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Education

Associate Professor Ben Phạm

Education

Dr Van H. Tran

Education; Linguistics

Dr Audrey Wang

Education; Psychology

HDR students

Current HDR students: Charles Sturt University

Current PhD Students: Other universities supported by Charles Sturt

  • Nicole Bazzocchi

Doctoral Completions: Charles Sturt University

Doctoral Completions: Other Universities supported by CSU

  • Gillian Scrymgeour (University of Tasmania)
    Creating a Resilient Nursing Workforce: Developing adaptive capacity to deal with the effects of natural hazard disasters
  • Michelle Leon (University of Cincinnati, USA)
    Characterizing speech sound productions in bilingual speakers of Jamaican Creole and English: Application of acoustic and perceptual methods
  • Pauline van der Straten Waillet (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
    Pratiques logopédiques avec les enfants bilingues ayant une audition typique ou des implants cochléaires: Évaluation de la production de parole et intervention précoce
    [Speech and language therapy practices with bilingual children with typical hearing or cochlear implants: Assessment of speech production and early intervention]
  • Íris Ösp Bergþórsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)

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