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Kay O'Halloran

Kay O’Halloran is Director of the Multimodal Analysis Lab, National University of Singapore.  She is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore where she has been teaching and undertaking research in multimodal discourse analysis since 1998.

Kay O’Halloran is an internationally recognised scholar in multimodal analysis and she has given plenary addresses on multimodal approaches to mathematics and science and the use of digital technology for multimodal analysis at international conferences in Australia, England, Japan, Italy, Austria and Finland. Kay O’Halloran established the multimedia laboratory, the Laboratory for Research in Semiotics (LRS) in the Department of English Language & Literature in 2000 to undertake research in multimodality with her Semiotics Research Group (SRG).  She is editor of Multimodal Discourse Analysis (2004, reprinted 2006), a volume featuring her postgraduate students’ research in multimodality, and her latest publications include Mathematical Discourse: Language, Symbolism and Visual Images (2005). She developed Systemics 1.0 software for linguistic analysis, in collaboration with Associate Professor Kevin Judd (Mathematics Department, University of Western Australia) in 2002.

Kay O’Halloran received her Ph.D. degree in Communication Studies from Murdoch University (Western Australia), and her B.Sc. (mathematics), Dip.Ed. and B.Ed. (1st Class Honours) from the University of Western Australia.

Kay O'Halloran is plenary speaker at these conferences in 2007 - 2010

• 6th Annual Conference of the Latin American Systemic-Functional Linguistics Association (ALSFAL)
  Critical Multimodal Discourse Studies
  Universidade Estadual Do Ceara (UECE), Brazil 7-9 October 2010

• Multiliteracies: Exposing,  Exploring and Experimenting - English Language Teaching Seminar 2009 (ELTS  2009)
  Language and Multiliteracies: Making The Connection
  Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore 18-20 November 2009

• The 3rd Finnish Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Multisemiotic Discourse Analysis (MUST-3) - Analysing Film and Video from Multisemiotic Discourse Perspectives
  Software for Social Semiotic Research and Analysis of Multimodal Film  Texts
  University of Helsinki, Finland  26-28 August 2009

• The Territoire / Places of Writing Studies in Higher Education: Canadian and International Perspectives
  A Multimodal Approach to Discourse Studies: A Paradigm with New Research Questions, Agendas and Directions for the Digital Age
  Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 24-26 May 2009

• Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language Symposium
  Accumulating Knowledge across Semiotic Resources and Modalities
  University of Sydney, Australia 8-10 December 2008

• University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS) 2008
  Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice
  University of Malaya, Malaysia 14-15 August 2008

• 35th Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC35)
  Multimodality Around the World: Past, Present and Future Directions for Research
  Macquarie University, Sydney Australia 21-25 July 2008

• Identity in Text Interpretation and Everyday Life Conference
  Texts, Identity, and Everyday Life in the Digital Age
  Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration (HERSETEC)
  Global Centre of Excellence (COE) Program  
  Nagoya University, Japan 9-10 Feb 2008

• Semiotic Margins: Reclaiming Meaning Conference
  Inter-Semiotic Expansion of Meaning: Hierarchical Scales and Metaphor in Mathematics Discourse
  University of Sydney, Australia 10-12 December 2007

• 1st Finnish Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Multisemiotic Discourse Analysis
  Developing & Using Interactive Digital Media (IDM) for Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Research in the Multimodality Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI), Singapore
  University of Helsinki, Finland 4-7 July 2007

Kay O'Halloran GCOE Conference Nagoya - February 2008

Kay O'Halloran is invited speaker at these workshops, seminars & events in 2007 - 2010

• O'Halloran, Kay L. & Judd, Kevin.  Social Cultural Modeling of Effective Influence. Cognition Decision Human Systems Interface and Socio-Cultural Modeling Joint Program Review. US Air Force Office Scientific Research (AFOSR), Arlington, USA, 25-29 January 2010.

• Print and Digital Texts Workshop
  English Language Teaching Seminar (ELTS 2009) Multiliteracies: Exposing, Exploring and Experimenting  
  Ministry of Education (Singapore), Singapore Management University, 18-20 November 2009

• Social Semiotic Analysis: ‘Gesture’ from HSBC ‘Cultural Collisions’ Advertising Campaign Workshop
  The 3rd Finnish Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Multisemiotic Discourse  Analysis - MUST-3
  University of Helsinki, Finland, 26-28 August 2009

• Systemic Functional Tools for Multimodal Analysis of Social Relations and Ideas
  Social Disorganisation and Human Evolution: Media Disruption of Social Transmission Workshop
  Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom, 24-27 September 2008

• From Systemic Functional Linguistics to Multimodal Discourse Analysis
  Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics Seminar
  Yuan Ze University, Taipei, Taiwan, 8 June 2007

• Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach to Mathematics and Science Discourse
  Graduate Institute of Science Education Seminar
  National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 7 June 2007