Women in Academia

Dr Marieke van Heugten, Assistant Professor and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the University at Buffalo, USA

August 17, 2020 Irena Lovcevic Season 1 Episode 12
Women in Academia
Dr Marieke van Heugten, Assistant Professor and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the University at Buffalo, USA
Show Notes

Today it's great to have Dr Marieke van Heugten on the podcast. Dr van Heugten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She completed her B.A. and M.Sc. at Radboud University in the Netherlands before moving to Canada where she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. In August 2015 she started her position at the University at Buffalo. Dr van Heugten's research focuses on when and how children learn to comprehend spoken language. Specifically, she explores how children (learn to) recognize words from fluent speech, how they (learn to) process the relationships between words in a sentence, and how they (learn to) take into account information from the environment during language processing to better understand the message. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr van Heugten's research on language processing in infants and children, Dr van Heugten's research journey, and on the challenges that female researchers face in Academia.

Time stamps:

[00:41] Dr van Heugten's introduction
[00:57] Dr van Heugten's research journey
[02:47] Obstacles in research journey
[05:02] Work/life balance
[06:05] Dr van Heugten's research on language processing in infants, toddlers and children
[09:07] Plans for future research
[10:04] Issues that women in Academia are facing today according to Dr van Heugten
[11:13] Dr van Heugten's advice for everyone thinking about a career in Academia or for those just starting a career in Academia

Links:

Buffalo BabyLab: https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/babylab/
Buffalo BabyLab Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/buffalobabylab/
Follow Dr van Heugten on Twitter: @mvheugten

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