013: The love of languages, linguistics and communication

Meet Sophie Nicholls • Hallidays Point, NSW

Bachelor of Arts at Newcastle University, and honors and PhD at University of New England, and a Master's of Speech Pathology at Charles Sturt University.

"Working as a speech pathologist is fantastic, because there's a lot of flexibility and I get the time to be with my children on weekends and holidays."

"It's an amazing profession in that it's very, very supportive, very collegial, and not at all competitive, which has been fantastic."

Today we are joined by Sophie Nicholls, who is a speech pathologist in Taree.

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Hear from Sophie Nicholls as she speaks of her incredible journey to become a Speech Pathologist.

“There's two meanings of the word linguist, a linguist can be either somebody that speaks a lot of languages, or someone that studies the structures of languages. So mine was the study the structure of languages. And so I was studying the structure of languages from Arnhem Land in Australia, Australian Aboriginal languages, which are just incredible. So the diversity of languages in Australia is something so special, and we're so lucky to live here. There was opportunities to study that because of the researchers at University of New England. And I knew that there was some researchers studying up there. And they invited me to come along and introduce me to the local community. So I get to I got to work there in the community doing language revitalization work in Arnhem Land in Arnhem Land. Yeah, in my early 20s, which was just, you know, a dream job at that stage.”

This is a 6 Degrees Podcast.

Linden Rudge1 March 2022