Collaboration between University of Pretoria and University of Gävle, Sweden

In September 2018, Dr Jeannie van der Linde, Mrs Renata Eccles (Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) and Dr Clorinda Panebianco Panebianco (Department of Music) represented the University of Pretoria at various seminars in Sweden. Seminars were presented at the University of Gävle with Douglas MacCutcheon (Department of Environmental Psychology, Högskolan i Gävle, Sweden). The group also presented to the Linnaeus Centre HEAD Graduate School, Linköping University. HEAD is a cognitive hearing science research group based at the Swedish Centre for Disability Research, run by Jerker Rönnberg (editor of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology). The seminars formed part of the STINT initiation grant supporting collaboration between the universities of Pretoria and Gävle, Sweden. The seminars were well received by the attendees and visiting lecturers.