Jane Mott (Brisbane).  
AVA President
Speech Pathologist & Voice Consultant

Private Practice
P O Box 949
Toowong  Qld  4066
Ph 61 7 3870 3882  Fax 61 7 3870 3882
Mobile 0414 835 431
Email janemott@ozemail.com.au 

Jane is a Speech Pathologist and Voice Consultant with over 30 years in Private Practice in Brisbane.  She works extensively with Professional Voice Users including Singers, Actors, Teachers, Journalists, Ministers of Religion, Politicians and Presenters and students of these professions.  She has a passion for voice – investigation, research,  quality and care. 

Jane acts as Consultant, Drama Department, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, has presented Professional Development for Speech Pathologists, Teachers, Librarians, Music Teachers, Singers and both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is a Foundation Member & previous Board Member of the Australian Voice Association, is a member of the Queensland Multi Disciplinary Voice Interest Group and Speech Pathology Australia and has a particular interest in Performing Arts Medicine.

Jane is committed to working for the advancement of the Australian Voice Association and the enhancement and well being of all voices.

Adele Nisbet (Brisbane)
AVA Vice President and Foundation Editor of Australian Voice
Lecturer in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy (singing), Researcher, Singer

Queensland Conservatorium
Griffith University
PO Box 3428
South Bank Q 4101 AUSTRALIA
Phone: 61 7 3735 6231; Fax: 61 7 3735 6282
Email: a.nisbet@griffith.edu.au

Adele is a Lecturer in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, and the Head of Vocal, Division of Opera and Vocal Studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Her focus is primarily on her studio teaching and lecturing within the Conservatorium. However, her doctoral work is on the acquisition of motor skills and the teaching and learning of singing.

Other research interests include learning theory as it applies to singing, the acquisition of expertise and the rehabilitation of the dysfunctional voice.  She set up the first voice lab in an Australian University in 1994 which still operates offering spectrographic analysis as a tool for examining and understanding vocal tone.

As a soprano, she is an experienced recitalist and has sung as soloist in many of the great works from the choral canon. She was co-founder and soprano with the vocal sextet Jones & Co in the 80’s and 90’s performing both nationally and internationally. 

She is the founding Editor of Australian Voice, Journal of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing and a past president of the AVA. 

Dr. Susannah Foulds-Elliott (Melbourne)
AVA Secretary and Editor of Voiceprint
Singing teacher, Researcher, Singer

The Vicarage
St. John’s Church
624 Centre Rd
Bentleigh VIC 3204
Ph + 61 3 9557. 2226
Mob 0409662030
Email: selliott@pacific.net.au

Susannah was a singing teacher at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, before moving to Victoria. She is currently Head Singing Teacher at Loreto Mandeville Hall, and at St Margaret’s School, Berwick.

Susannah is a singing examiner for AMEB Victoria, and is on the committee for re-writing the new AMEB singing syllabus.

She was the president of the SA Chapter of ANATS (Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing).

As a professional performer Susannah has sung with State Opera of South Australia and is currently a member of Victorian Opera. She has performed as a soloist and concert artist in the UK and in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with conductors such as Stuart Challender, Graham Abbott, David Kram and Richard Gill. Susannah has received awards for singing from the University of Adelaide and for singing research from the University of Sydney.

Her research topics have included emotion and intention to communicate in singing, measurement of respiration in operatic breathing, and a historical overview of singing teaching methods. Susannah has directed operatic and musical performances, and has worked on vocal development with choirs in the UK and Australia. She has also been involved in music in the Anglican Church for many years.

Dr. Sally Collyer (Melbourne)
AVA Board member
Singing teacher, Singing-voice Researcher, Singer

PO Box 156
Box Hill, Vic  3128
Ph: 0412 546 580
email: sallycollyer@yahoo.com.au

Sally runs a private studio specialising in theatre-based singing: classical, music theatre and cabaret.

She regularly presents workshops for the singing teachers' association in Australia (ANATS), adjudicates at eisteddfodau, and debuted her first cabaret show My Friend, the Vet in December 2007.

She holds a Master of Music from the Queensland Conservatorium and a PhD from The University of Sydney, which studied acoustic, respiratory and postural behaviour in female classical singing, utilising triaxial magnetometry.

Her research has been published in international journals (including the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research) and presented at national and international conferences.

Current research focuses on the breathing-acoustic-perception link and on spectral balance change. She is a full member of the singing teacher associations in Australia (ANATS) and the United States (NATS) and a proud member of the AVA.

Johanna Flavell (Adelaide)
AVA Board member
Speech Pathologist, Clinical Researcher

PO Box 117
Stirling, SA 5152
Phone: 0407 610 452
jaflavell2@bigpond.com

Johanna is a speech pathologist specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders.

She works in private practice and on a part-time basis at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where she coordinates the Voice Analysis Clinic as well as the Diagnostic and Treatment clinic for Spasmodic Dysphonia.

She also presents extensively in the area of voice injury prevention / voice safety promotion for professional voice users and has presented this work within the international Health Promoting Hospitals / Safe and Healthy Communities networks’ European meetings. Clinical research interests include asthma, dysphonia and chronic cough, and physical therapy for the release of voice / cough related musculoskeletal tension.

She is an eclectic therapist and casts her professional development net widely, and has, for example, undertaken training in Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Somato-Emotional Release under the auspices of the Upledger Institute in the USA. 

Johanna is a passionate singer but is regularly informed that this is an activity best undertaken in the privacy of her car.

Ms Lotte Latukefu (Wollongong, NSW)
AVA Board Member
Voice Lecturer (singing voice), Singer, Researcher

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Email: latukefu@uow.edu.au

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Ms. Jane Bickford (Adelaide)
VOICEPRINT Associate Editor
Lecturer in Speech Pathology, Clinical Educator, Researcher

Postal address P O Box 668, Mylor, SA 5153
Email address: Jane.Bickford@flinders.edu.au
Contact details 0422 921 884

Jane is a lecturer within the Speech Pathology programmes at Flinders University, South Australia.

She currently teaches the voice and voice disorders, basic counselling skills and professional practice topics for the Bachelor programme and co-ordinates the elective topic for the Masters programme. 

Jane has worked clinically in several states of Australia and the United Kingdom. Until recently she was the senior speech pathologist for the Flinders Medical Centre  Laryngology Clinic, (a diagnostic voice clinic) run jointly with the Department of Ear Nose and Throat Surgery.

In 2009 she is commencing a Research Masters examining the psychosocial experiences of people who undergo total laryngectomy. She also has research interests relating to prematurity and dysphonia, voice therapy service provision, health professional education, psychosocial aspects of voice and voice disorders and the social determinants of health.