Speaker Profile ... Professor Skye McDonald

Skye McDonald is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. She received training in clinical neuropsychology at Melbourne University and completed her PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney, in 1991. Skye's research interests are in disorders of communication, social cognition, and social behaviour. Her focus is both theoretical and applied with a particular interest in rehabilitation. Skye has published 60 original research articles and 9 book chapters as well as two edited volumes.

She is on the Editorial boards of Aphasiology, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and Brain Impairment. For the past 7 years Skye has served as President of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI).