Our people
The University of Sydney Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab is a team of researchers investigating communication disorders following acquired brain injury (ABI). We work with research participants with traumatic brain injury, aphasia following stroke, dementia and other acquired neurological communication disorders.
The team is lead by Professor Leanne Togher, and includes experienced researchers, early career researchers, PhD candidates and honours students.
Academic staff
- Professor Leanne Togher (Director)
- Dr Petra Avramovic
- Dr Sophie Brassel
- Dr Melissa Brunner
- Dr Elise Bogart (formerly Elbourn)
- Dr Sarah El-Wahsh (Affiliate)
- Dr Penelope Monroe
- Dr Rachael Rietdijk
- Ms Kylie Southwell
- Mr Tushar Prasad (Research Assistant)
Visiting academic staff / Postdoctoral fellows
- Dr Nicholas Behn, City University London
- Dr Jana Quinting, University of Cologne
Research students
- Pouria Khosravi, PhD Candidate
- Victoria Norris, PhD Candidate
- Kate Smith, PhD Candidate
- Kylie Southwell, PhD Candidate
- Naomi Hodder, Masters Candidate
- Ashna Nadan, Honours student
- Roisin Hayes, Honours student
- Minh Tien Victoria Lam, Honours student
- Charlene Cheukling Lo, Honours student
- Lauren Mckibbin, Honours student
- Sumaita Tasneem, Honours student
- Sonia Fiza Tint, Honours student
- Yong Yong Zhang, Honours student
- Peter Miljak, Honours student
- Elsa Schuller, Honours student
- Tamara Eide, Honours student
- Mahima Parthasarathy, Honours student
- Pearl Haskew, Honours student
- Alex Manea, Honours student
- Janet Tedjasasmita, Honours student
- Bonita Sham, Undergraduate speech therapy student, University of Hong Kong
Collaborators
- American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI)
- Brain Injury Australia
- Centre for Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation, La Trobe University
- Changineers
- icare Foundation
- International Brain Injury Association (IBIA)
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- speechBITE
- Speech Pathology Australia
- TalkBank
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- Dr Krestina Amon, The University of Sydney
- Dr Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, The University of Sydney
- Professor Mark Bayley, University of Toronto, Canada
- Dr Nicholas Behn, City, University of London
- Jason Bransby-Bell, Insight Rehab
- Associate Professor Andrew Campbell, The University of Sydney
- Dr Iben Christensen, Copenhagen University
- Dr Jarryd Daymond, The University of Sydney
- Professor Sarah Dennis, The University of Sydney / South-Western Sydney LHD
- Professor Lindy Fitzgerald, Curtin University
- Dr Kate Gould, Monash University
- Samantha Grant, inspire rehab & psychology
- Dr Kathryn Greenslade, University of New Hampshire
- Professor Bronwyn Hemsley, University of Technology Sydney
- Professor Jerry Hoepner, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
- Dr Cynthia Honan, University of Tasmania
- Sally Howard, Northern Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service
- Dr Ralf Ilchef, Northen Sydney LHD / The University of Sydney
- Dr Anna Janssen, The University of Sydney
- Liesel Jeffers, Northern Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service
- Dr Melanie Keep, The University of Sydney
- Dr Louise Keegan, Moravian College
- Dr Katherine Kelly, South-Western Sydney LHD
- Professor Mary Kennedy, Chapman University
- Dr Belinda Kenny, Western Sydney University
- Professor Steven Maguire, The University of Sydney
- Professor Sue McAllister, The University of Sydney
- Sheila MacDonald
- Professor Skye McDonald, UNSW
- Professor Alistair McEwan, The University of Sydney
- Professor Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
- Assistant Professor Peter Meulenbroek, Radford University
- Dr Melanie Moses, Melanie Moses Speech Pathologist
- Dr John Pierce, La Trobe University
- Professor Jennie Ponsford, Monash University
- Associate Professor Emma Power, University of Technology Sydney
- Dr Jana Quinting, University of Cologne
- Julia Robertson, Griffith University
- Professor Miranda Rose, La Trobe University
- Nick Rushworth, Brain Injury Australia
- Dr Liz Spencer, The University of Newcastle
- Suzanne Stacey, Royal Rehab
- Dr Joanne Steel, The University of Newcastle
- Dr Catherine Talbot, Bournemouth University
- Emeritus Professor Robyn Tate, The University of Sydney
- Dr Sarah Wallace, University of Queensland
- Penny Welch-West, St Joseph’s Healthcare London
- Dr Catherine Wiseman-Hakes, McMaster University
- Dr Anusha Withana, University of Sydney
- Kristina Bradley, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University
- Lynn Grayson, PhD Candidate, Glasgow Caledonian University
- Kathryn Pettigrove, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University
- Harmony Turnbull, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
