School of Community Health
Lindy McAllister PhD 
Position Associate Professor in Speech Pathology
Campus Albury-Wodonga, City
Phone (02) 6051 6750 (with voice mail)
Fax (02) 6051 6727
EMAIL LINDY MCALLISTER 
Lindy is Associate Professor in Speech Pathology at Charles Sturt University and a Key Researcher of CSU's Centre for Research into Professional Practice, Learning & Education (RIPPLE). She was recently appointed as Deputy Director of CSU's newly established Education for Practice Institute (EPI) .
Lindy was inaugural head of the speech pathology program at Charles Sturt University in Albury, New South Wales, which commenced in 1998. The program was the first SP program to be established outside a major urban centre in Australia, and has a special brief to prepare graduates for rural and remote practice. The program uses community–based models of practice and social models of disability as frameworks for its curriculum. The speech pathology teaching team won the CSU Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (Group Award) 2002.
Lindy holds a Bachelor of Speech Therapy from the University of Queensland, a Master of Arts in Speech Pathology from Western Michigan University and a PhD from The University of Sydney in clinical education. She was National President of Speech Pathology Association of Australia in 2003 and 2004, and currently serves as a senior Council appointed member of the association's Ethics Board. In 2002, she was the recipient of the Association's highest honour – The Eleanor Wray Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession, and in 2006 was made a Life Member .
Lindy is the author of three internationally published books on clinical education: Facilitating Learning in Clinical Settings (Nelson Thornes, 1997, reprinted 2001) and Clinical Education in Speech Pathology (Whurr, 2004), and co–author/editor of Communication in the Health and Social Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2005, 2 nd edition in progress). A new book on Ethics in Speech Language Therapy is in progress. Lindy has also contributed more than 80 peer reviewed book chapters and papers on clinical education, communication, child language disorders and qualitative research to the international literature. She has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences on clinical education practice and research, and has presented over 60 other papers in the last few years in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.
She currently holds with colleagues a number of national competitive research grants: an ARC Discovery grant investigating the prevalence, severity and impact of speech impairment on children, their families, friends and teachers; and an ARC Linkage grant investigating the community and social participation of rural people with brain injury. Other current funded research projects include: a qualitative, longitudinal study of factors that impact on retention of allied health graduates in rural and remote work settings; an investigation of the viability of using desk top computers, webcams and mobile phones to deliver elements of paediatric speech pathology services. With the research team that developed COMPASS™ - the world's first validated and reliable tool for the assessment of competence in speech pathology students , Lindy is involved in two grants from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education to train university staff, clinical educators and students in speech pathology courses in Australia and New Zealand to use COMPASS™ in curriculum development, teaching, assessment, and benchmarking.
Lindy is currently involved in the supervision of 11 masters and doctoral research students. In the last two years, she has been Visiting Professor or External Examiner at a number of universities in Malaysia, the UK and New Zealand.
Areas of Research Interest
Clinical/fieldwork education, rural speech pathology issues, service delivery issues, ethics.