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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 international conferences in 2008

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

• 35th Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC35) “Voices around the World”
  Macquarie University, Sydney Australia 21-25 July 2008

• University of Malaya Conference on Discourse and Society (UMDS)
  University of Malaya, Malaysia 14-15 August 2008

• Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language Symposium
  University of Sydney, Australia 8-10 December 2008