Awarded for research achievement

Kathryn Crowe, post-doc in speech language therapy/pathology at the University of Iceland has received the Charles Sturt Distinguished Alumni Award for achievements in research.

The Australian university recently awarded alumni who have been highly successful in their fields, made social impact and made their mark in research. Kathryn completed her PhD from Charles Sturt University in 2013 and has since then held postdoc positions at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and the University of Copenhagen. 

She joined a postdoc programme at the Faculty of Medicine last year through a grant from the University of Iceland’s Recruitment Fund, and she is active in teaching and research in speech therapy. 

Kathryn‘s research focuses on language acquisition in multilingual children with normal hearing, hearing impairment, and deaf children. She has already published sixty papers in her career and last year she received, along with her colleague, the Editorial Award from the American Speech Language Hearing Association for the best article published in the journal American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology in 2018.