33.883, All: Cristina Dye Obituary

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Subject: 33.883, All: Cristina Dye Obituary

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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:51:44
From: Laura Elliott [LAURA.ELLIOTT at NCL.AC.UK]
Subject: Cristina Dye Obituary

 
11th December, 1972 to 22nd January, 2022

Cristina Dye, who was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of
English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University (UK), was
a leading researcher as well as a talented teacher and supervisor with
expertise in the areas of Language Development and Psycholinguistics. She was
promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018 in recognition of her excellent
performance in both teaching and research, having joined Newcastle as a
Lecturer seven years before. 

Cristina graduated with a doctorate from Cornell in 2005 and became a leading
researcher in first language acquisition. She was particularly recognised for
her work on atypical language development which she began during her
post-doctoral studies in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Georgetown’s
School of Medicine (2006-2010). The importance to her of the training,
mentoring and intellectual environment of these institutions stayed with her
and she continued to actively collaborate with researchers there (particularly
Barbara Lust at Cornell and Michael Ullman at Georgetown). After a short stint
at the University of Salford, Cristina’s appointment to Newcastle in 2011
allowed our students to enrol on her new research-led, multi-disciplinary
modules in language development, with a special focus on the development of
language in children with neuro-developmental disorders.

Cristina’s research in this area, which she regularly undertook in conjunction
with collaborators all over the world, had a fundamental influence on our
understanding of how the brain and language processing interact in atypically
developing children. For instance, her collaborative work with Matthew
Walenski (East Carolina University), Stewart Mostofski (Kennedy Krieger
Institute, Baltimore) and Michael Ullman (Georgetown) on children with
Tourette syndrome - who had previously been studied only in terms of their
perceived deficits – demonstrated categorically that they instead have verbal
strengths which had never before been documented.

Cristina’s passion for linguistics in the real world and the co-production of
research led to her kick-starting the Research Buddies
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/researchbuddies/ initiative which has become a
long-term, mutually-beneficial partnership between Newcastle University and
local schools. Not only does it facilitate child-centred research projects but
it also engages teachers, parents and youngsters in cultivating the same love
of scientific discovery which typified Cristina’s own approach to her
research, teaching and supervision. 

Her passing is a loss not only to her family, friends and colleagues at
Newcastle and elsewhere but to the fields of Language Development and
Psycholinguistics more broadly to which she had so much more left to give.

Our thoughts are with Cristina’s family at this sad time.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics



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