Megan Jane McAuliffe is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in speech production changes due to neurological injury, disease and ageing.

Megan McAuliffe
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
Thesis
  • An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease (2003)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Academic career

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McAuliffe completed a PhD titled An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease at the University of Queensland.[1] McAuliffe then joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor. As of 2024 she is the Dean of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research.[2][3] McAuliffe is co-director, with Catherine Theys, of the Speech-Language Neuroscience Lab at Canterbury.[3]

McAuliffe's research has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and she has served on the HRC grant assessment committee and on the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation scientific assessment committee.[4][5] McAuliffe was an editor on the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research from 2017 to 2020.[5]

McAuliffe's research focuses on neurological causes of speech impairment, called dysarthria, and she is particularly interested in comparing speech production and perception during healthy ageing and neurological impairment, such as Parkinson's disease. She has explored how speech production changes due to accent, ageing and neurological disease and injury. She has commented on why people with foreign accent syndrome, who have typically experienced neurological injury or impairment, feel they experience a change of accent.[3][6]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ McAuliffe, Megan Jane (2003). An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.
  2. ^ "Linguistics and communication disorders | University of Canterbury". www.canterbury.ac.nz. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Academic profile: Professor Megan McAuliffe". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Health researchers granted $83m". NZ Herald. 19 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Professional service: Professor Megan McAuliffe". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  6. ^ Hunt, Tom (6 July 2011). "Kiwi's surprise accents a long way from home". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
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