I am very honoured to be the Vice President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. I am now half way through my second term of office, so have been in the role for 6 years. The most challenging role for the committee over the past 2 years was to work with academics from Christchurch, New Zealand, who were to host the 2012 ICPLA conference, decide that this was not possible due the earthquakes, then find an alternative venue. We were very thankful that Prof Fiona Gibbon and Dr Alice Lee from University College Cork agreed to host the conference at short notice. It was an extremely successful conference. The next conference, will be held in June 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden. We are hoping that Christchurch will be ready to host the 2016 conference.
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| ICPLA executive committee: Martin Ball, Sara Howard, Sharynne, Ben Rutter, Tom Powell |
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| L-R: Alice Lee, Tom Powell, Martin Ball, Fiona Gibbon, David Crystal, Sara Howard, Ben Rutter, Sharynne McLeod |
