Today it's great to have Dr Jovana Pejovic on the podcast. Dr Pejovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab. She completed her PhD studies in 2019 at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain, with a thesis on the development of audiovisual speech processing in monolingual and bilingual infants. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Pejovic's research journey, her research on the audiovisual speech processing in infants, and on the challenges that female researchers face in Academia.
Time stamps:
[00:48] Dr Pejovic's introduction
[01:10] Dr Pejovic's research journey
[03:21] Obstacles in research journey
[05:12] Work/life balance
[07:52] Dr Pejovic's research on the role of bilingualism and visual cues in infant speech perception
[10:00] Plans for future research
[11:27] Issues that women in Academia are facing today according to Dr Pejovic
[15:04] Dr Pejovic's advice for everyone thinking about a career in Academia or for those just starting a career in Academia
Links:
Dr Pejovic's Lisbon BabyLab personal page: https://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/English/jovana_pejovic.htm
Lisbon BabyLab: http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/babylab/english/index.html
The Phonetics and Phonology Lab (LabFon): http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/english.htm
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