Dr. Laurel Fais

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

Laurel Fais (Ph.D., Linguistics, Indiana University) was a sessional with the Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Systems Program at the University of British Columbia.

She conducted research on the effects of social interaction on infant language acquisition and on the optical flow measurement of the movement of infants engaged in language studies at Janet Werker’s Infant Studies Centre at UBC. In addition, she analyzed conversational pragmatics and language use in multimodal interfaces in machine translation (NTT and ATR, Japan), and the written language skills of adolescent dyslexics (The Forman School, CT, USA).  

She is now retired and living in North Carolina, USA.

Title Journal or Funding Program Cluster Researcher(s) Date
Psychology research during the pandemic: The upside of being onlin Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19, The Globe and Mail Janet Werker, Alona Fyshe
Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, Language Sciences Initiative, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions Heidi Tworek, Maite Taboada
Building blocks of language learning formed in infancy, and video chats can help later on Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19, The Globe and Mail Janet Werker
Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19: A RAPID Response Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Institute for European Studies, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Heidi Tworek
Centre for Community Engaged Documentation and Research Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund Daisy Rosenblum

 

Contact

Dr. Laurel Fais

laurelfais19@gmail.com

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