Jane's clinical experience inspired her to pursue her PhD. Her project focused on the experience of living with and supporting individuals with total laryngectomy. She received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Jane has supervised numerous research students to completion including Masters (2) and Honours (20+) and is currently primary supervisor for PhD (3), Masters (3) and Honours (1) students. The research projects have ranged from occupational voice for teachers, redesign of non-urgent outpatient services utilising allied health advanced scope services, speech pathology support in youth justice, speech pathology school-based services in transdisciplinary models to support communication and literacy and speech pathology role and support in tracheostomy and head and neck cancer services. Several of these projects have received competitive grant funding. 

Jane has used knowledge translation models effectively to support redesign of health services to address long outpatient waiting lists, to understand the barriers to adoption of best practice in both acute and community healthcare, social and education settings and to enable the successful implementation of services and the development of health literacy. 

Jane has extensive expertise in qualitative methodology, she also has experience using mixed method and single case-study designs, as well as the co-design and co-creation of research in interdisciplinary contexts.

The effects of a detrimental change to voice and its impact on communicative competence,  self-identity and social participation,  prevention of occupational voice disorders, measurement and treatment for head and neck lymphoedema, critical appraisal of speech pathology practice and education, speech pathology in transdicplinary models to support outcomes, therapeutic communication skill development in speech pathology, redesign of allied health service delivery to improve healthcare outcomes and youth justice and role of speech pathology.