Claire Penn
Claire Penn | |
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| Born | 1951 Speech-language pathology |
| Institutions | University of the Witwatersrand |
Claire Penn (1951–2018) was a South African
Human Sciences Research Council. She received the Order of Mapungubwe (Silver) in 2007, South Africa's highest honor, for her work in linguistics, sign language, child language, aphasia
, and head injury.
Career
Penn was born in
cum laude) in Speech and Hearing in 1972. She worked at Wits as clinical tutor from 1973 to 1976 before moving to England as a British council scholar. She returned to Wits to earn a PhD in 1983.[3]
She was a visiting scholar to
Shoprite Checkers / SABC 2 South Africa Woman of the Year for Science and Technology.[4][5] In 2012, her visit and lecture on "Health Communication across Cultures: Some Perspectives from South Africa" was funded by Duke University.[6]
Personal life
She had two children, and her hobbies included mountain climbing and hiking.[3]
Awards and honours
She was awarded the Order of Mapungubwe in Silver in 2007 for "Excellent contribution to the field of speech and language pathology, especially in the area of linguistics, sign language, child language, aphasia and head injury and producing ground-breaking research in understanding the complexities of human communication."[3]
References
- ^ Barron, Chris. "Claire Penn: Leader in field of linguistics who understood 'soft' science". No. Sunday Times. Times Lives. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ^ "The passing of Professor Claire Penn". CoE Fellows. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Claire Penn (1951 – )". Order of Mapungubwe. The Presidency, Republic of South Africa. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ "South Africa's Women of the Year". SouthAfrica.info. 8 August 2008. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ "The women who are changing South Africa ...and the world". Pretoria News. 2 July 2008. p. 6.
- ^ "Building a Faculty Network on Africa". Duke Today. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
External links
- Staff profile, University of the Witwatersrand
- Claire Penn publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publications by Claire Penn at ResearchGate
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