Current NZILBB vacancies

Summer Scholarship opportunities

NZILBB at the University of Canterbury has 11 summer scholarships available.   These will be held over 10 weeks over the summer break, and are worth $5000 each.    

They will be offered to students who are considering enrolling at the University of Canterbury at 400-level or in a Master's or PhD programme in 2011. 

 The deadline is September 3rd 2010, and application information is here:

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/postgrad/summerschols/index.shtml

The projects are:

015 Auditory specification of emotion
016 Rhythmic movement and rhythmic speech
017 Language and mild cognitive impairment
018 Non-verbal cues by Maori and Pakeha
019 Building an audio-visual corpus of NZ English
020 Mapping environmental factors that influence the community participation of adults with aphasia

In collaboration with Tait Electronics:
107 How do people use radios paired with various accessories in the field
108 Investigating speech characteristics, and compensatory changes, in high noise environments
109 The effect of clear speech strategies on speech intelligibility and response time in noise
110 Using auditory feedback to investigate new ways of enhancing speech intelligibility in noise

In collaboration with Science Alive!
106 Science Communication