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Professor Beth Armstrong

Background

Beth leads the University Department of Rural Health South West (UDRH SW), established in July 2023 and located at Edith Cowan University in Bunbury. It is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and is part of a national network. The UDRH SW aims to strengthen the rural health workforce through sourcing and supporting allied health, nursing and midwifery clinical placement experiences throughout the South West region of Western Australia.

From a Speech Pathology background, Professor Armstrong has worked in health and academic leadership roles for over twenty years focused on multidisciplinary clinical practice and research. She established speech pathology programs in NSW and WA and was inaugural editor of Advances in Speech Pathology – now the International Journal of Speech Language Pathology. Each of her endeavours has involved a rural focus, particularly with her move to WA in 2009 where she established a rural network across WA focused on student placements and research. Her research interests focus on brain injury rehabilitation and the provision of culturally secure health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in metropolitan, rural and remote areas. She leads a national multidisciplinary team of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal researchers in this area. She also has expertise in linguistic analysis of health interactions and aphasia. She has been an invited speaker at national and international medical, linguistic and speech pathology conferences, and has published in, reviewed for, and played an editorial role for a range of national and international journals. Beth has produced 138 journal publications and book chapters and attracted over $10m in competitive grant funding.

Professional associations

  • Speech Pathology Association of Australia

Awards and recognition

  • Fellow of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia

Research areas and interests

  • Aboriginal health
  • Culturally secure rehabilitation services
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Professional interactions
  • Aphasia rehabilitation
  • Linguistic applications to everyday discourse in aphasia
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