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MSc Speech & Lang Sci grads win the Tavistock Prize for “excellent work related to aphasia”
19 February 2018
Congratulations to Luisa Zenobi-Bird and Tom Shortland, two recent graduates from MSc Speech and Language Sciences, who have shared the Tavistock Prize for “excellent work related to aphasia”.
They were awarded this £300 prize for their final year projects. Luisa’s project (The impact of background noise on speech output in people with aphasia) was supervised by Dr Carolyn Bruce and Dr Caroline Newton. Tom’s project (An investigation into the influence of prosodic information on grammaticality judgements in aphasic listeners) was supervised by Professor Rosemary Varley and Dr Vitor Zimmerer. The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia is a national organisation established by the Duke and Duchess of Bedford that aims to raise the profile of aphasia, and to support research and clinical services into the condition.
The pictures here show the students receiving the certificates from their supervisors:
(left to right) Dr Carolyn Bruce, Luisa Zenobi-Bird, Dr Caroline Newton
(left to right) Dr Vitor Zimmerer, Tom Shortland, Professor Rosemary Varley