Vale Tim McNamara https://www.iltaonline.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1754325 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:45:00 GMT Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:49:47 GMT Copyright © 2023 International Language Testing Association Vale Tim McNamara https://www.iltaonline.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1754325 https://www.iltaonline.com/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1754325 Among the many personal tributes to the passing of Tim McNamara we, as the ILTA Executive Board, would like to express our profound sympathies and acknowledge Tim’s role as a founding member of ILTA. Tim’s impact on ILTA and its members, as well as on our field, cannot be overstated. Tim served in various positions on the Executive Board during his career including Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President and President (1998). Tim was a regular attendee at LTRC and played an important role in mentoring younger generations of researchers there. Tim shaped our whole field in an utterly unique way, and should be remembered as both a radical and a unifying voice who brought wisdom, intellect, criticality and generosity to his contributions and relationships with all his colleagues. We are in discussions with the conference organisers to provide a space to commemorate Tim’s legacy and contribution to the field at LTRC in Innsbruck next year.

Tim will live on in our memories, and our heartfelt sympathy goes out to his family, friends and colleagues in Australia and around the world.

In sadness 
the ILTA Executive Board

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