Associate Professor Sue McAllister has full academic status at Flinders University and is currently employed as Professor and Associate Dean for Work Integrated Learning in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. Sue has over 30 years experience as a speech pathologist, clinical educator, project manager, and academic. She holds several roles including Head of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Honours (Speech Pathology) coordinator, member of the executive committee for the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education and teaches evidence based practice and research. She has a number of national collaborations and research projects to support quality learning, teaching and assessment practice in speech pathology and other health disciplines as well as development of quality clinical assessments.

Through my research I am to contribute to ensuring that the public are well served by our graduate health professionals. I have two primary areas of research. I am interested in the nature of health professional competency - what is it and how can educators facilitate its development through university and workplace based learning and assessment to ensure that the public is well served by our graduate health professionals? Secondly, I am addressing the quality of assessment/outcome measures, in particular those related to measurement of communication and dysphagia outcomes, with a view to supporting quality practice and research.

Consultancy: I provide consultation and workshops on developing competency statements, competency based assessment and aligning curriculum with desired performance outcomes and have worked with a range of education agencies and national professional bodies

• Cross linguistic transfer (1)
• Influences on Competency Development in Speech Pathology Students (Univ of Sydney) (1)
• Assessment of bilingual children
• Development of speech pathology competencies in domestic and international students