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IALSP Executive Officers for 2014-2016
President – Tony Young
Tony Young has been a member of the Association since 2002, attending his first ICLASP in Hong Kong that year. His was born in Carlisle, in the north of England, in 1961 and now, after a lot of travelling, again lives near the city, in the Pennine Hills near the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. He did his first degree in English at the University of Sussex, and was then involved in various capacities in language education in Spain, Italy, Malaysia and the UK between 1984 and 2000. He was awarded a Masters in Applied Linguistics in 1999 and a PhD on intercultural communication in English language education in 2007, both at the University of London in the UK. He is now senior lecturer in language and communication and the head of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, where he is also a university Senate member. He teaches and supervises research into intercultural communication and the social psychology of communication. His current research interests focus on medical communication and education, especially related to people living with dementia and on the ‘international’ student experience.
Immediate Past President – Bernadette Watson
Bernadette Watson is the immediate past president of IALSP and has served on the executive since 2000. She is a communication scholar who is passionate about the importance of health communication research. Her contribution to this field has been to apply and refine theory from the social psychology of language. She conducts applied communication research and engage in research that is translational and interdisciplinary. She takes this approach because she believes that work in this field can make a practical difference to people’s lives and health.
President Elect – Maggie Pitts
Margaret “Maggie” Pitts (PhD Penn State University, USA) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona. She was introduced to and immediately folded into her scholarly IALSP family at the 2002 ICLASP in Hong Kong. She has participated in each subsequent conference and has been an active member of the Association since that time. She served as local co-host at the Penn State conference in 2004, Officer of Records prior to the 2006 Bonn conference and Treasurer shortly afterwards. She continued as Treasurer of the Association throughout the 2008 Tucson, 2010 Brisbane, and 2012 Netherlands conferences. After the Netherlands, she continued on as Regional Representative from North America. At the 2014 Hawaii conference she was honored and delighted to be nominated (and elected) President Elect of the Association. For over a decade, ICLASP has been the primary venue for Maggie to showcase her research on language and communication during lifespan transitions. She has shared her work on student sojourner transitions, the transformative potential of positive communication, later life conversations and eldercare, supportive communication in multigenerational neighborhoods, and more. She looks forward to continuing her active participation in IALSP and engaging in the collegial and scholarly conversations she has come to love at future ICLASPs. Maggie feels privileged to have been “raised” within this supportive, scholarly community and is thrilled to see her own students begin to flourish in the Association as she has.
Officers
Treasurer – Jake Harwood
Secretary – Alina Schartner
Alina Schartner is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. She received a BSc in Political Science from the University of Salzburg, Austria in 2008 and obtained an MA degree in Cross-Cultural Communication and Education from Newcastle University in 2010. She was subsequently awarded a PhD from Newcastle University for a project investigating the adjustment and adaptation of international student sojourners in the UK. She teaches and supervises research into cross-cultural communication and the social psychology of communication. Her research has been publiched in journals such as Higher Education, the European Journal of Higher Education, the Journal of Research in International Education and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. She has been an active member of IALSP since 2012.
Communication Officer – Jessica Gasiorek
Jessica Gasiorek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She was introduced to IALSP at its 2012 conference in Leeuwarden, and then helped organize the following conference, ICLASP14, in Honolulu, HI in 2014. She received her A.B. from Princeton University in French and Italian, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Communication. Jessica studies message processing and social cognition, with attention to their effects on social dynamics and people’s subjective well-being. She is particularly interested in topics of communication accommodation and nonaccommodation, communication and aging, and communication in multilingual medical contexts.
Regional Representatives
Africa, Australia and Oceania – Liz Jones
Africa, Australia and Oceania – Cindy Gallois
Cindy Gallois is Emeritus Professor in psychology and cindy facultycommunication at The University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, International Communication Association, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and International Academy of Intercultural Relations. She has been a past president of ICA (2001-2002;Executive Committee 2000-2005), IALSP (2002-2004), and Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (1997-1999). She organised the fifth ICLASP in Brisbane in 1994, was a member of the IALSP executive from its inception, and served as its original secretary. Cindy’s research encompasses intergroup communication in health, intercultural, and organisational contexts, including the impact of communication on quality of patient care. She is particularly interested in the role of communication accommodation through language and non-verbal behaviour in interactions between health providers and patients, as well as among different groups of health providers. Finally, she is interested in developing theory and methodology (including visualisation techniques) in health communication. Thus, her research and her focus of interest is very strongly in the LASP tradition. Over her career, she has published more than 150 books, chapters, and articles in refereed journals, and has supervised 35 PhD students to successful completion. She believes very strongly in the approach of language and social psychology, and would be happy to serve on the IALSP Executive again.
Asia – Gyuseog Q. Han
Latin America – Laura Camara Lima
North America – Kim Noels
North America – Janice Krieger
Janice L. Krieger (Ph.D., Communication, Penn State University) is Director of the STEM-H Translational Communication Research program and Associate Professor of Advertising at the University of Florida. She is currently vice-chair of the IntergroupCommunication Interest Group for International Communication Association. Her research examines health and science communication from an intergroup perspective and appears in journals such as Human Communication Research, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, among others.
Europe – Itesh Sachdev
Europe – Martin Ehala
Martin Ehala (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Tartu in Estonia. His main research interests are the theory of ethnolinguistic vitality, language ecology, and the development of the Estonian linguistic environment. He has also published on topics related to language and identity, and contact-induced changes in Estonian. Currently, he is the PI of the project “Sustainability of Estonian in the Era of Globalization” (ekkam.ut.ee/en/). His previous major project was “Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Identity Construction: Estonia in the Context of Other Baltic Countries” which compared the vitalities of the Baltic Russian speaking minorities using an innovative quantitative model of subjective vitality.
Student Representatives
Stephanie Smith
Stephanie Smith: Stephanie is an Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on workplace communication and job searching strategies.
Marko Dragojevic
Marko Dragojevic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on intergroup communication, language attitudes, and linguistic framing in persuasion.