It has been an exciting six months for Dr Sharynne McLeod, senior lecturer in language acquisition at Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Teacher Education. As a world-renowned speech pathologist, she is just back from Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University College after successfully applying for a prestigious British Academy Visiting Fellowship worth over £8000. Dr McLeod was there for a project entitled Mapping tongue/palate contact for speech sound production. “I needed to go to Edinburgh to finish analysing my work. They have been developing new technology combining ultrasound and electropalatography so you can actually map the tongue’s movement during speech. No one has combined these techniques before,” Dr McLeod said. Whilst in Europe, Dr McLeod presented some of her mapping research to the British Association of Academic Phoneticians in Scotland as well as presenting to speech pathologists, students and academics at universities in London, Sheffield and Edinburgh. There was more good news waiting for Dr McLeod on her return home when she discovered she had been awarded a Fellowship of Speech Pathology Australia, one of only two Fellowships awarded throughout Australia.