Abstract
With this scholarship, we want to support promising researchers in early stages of their academic career with appreciation and promotion of their work.
In 2023, Elisa Bertoldi received the inaugural scholarship during the 11th International Conference on Multimodality (11ICOM) that took place at the Institute of Education, University College London in September.
We are delighted to support Elisa in her work. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Udine in Italy and works on read-aloud sessions as complex multimodal communicative events. As part of her PhD thesis, she has also developed new software, TMA –Tool for Multimodal Analysis, which can be used to identify data structures and visualize correlations and patterns in annotation data (see https://yell.uniud.it/en/multimodal-communication). In London, at the 11ICOM, Elisa gave a convincing presentation on ‘Multimodal orchestration in read-aloud performances: Mediating nonfiction picturebooks in English as an additional language’.
We congratulate Elisa on this scholarship and wish her all the best for her future work!