Meet our students and staff

“As a postgraduate student, I’ve really enjoyed getting back into that learning frame of mind again. My course has a small number of students so we’ve been able to connect really well with each other and with our lecturers and tutors. The course has clearly been extremely well thought-out and we are regularly consulted about what we want as students and our feedback is listened to and acted upon.

“I've always been more of a clinician than a researcher, so I hope to implement what I have learned at uni into my work and I want to be able to impart my learnings to other staff. Ideally, I'd like to be able to change management and current practice via knowledge translation in order to provide a better service to my patients.”

Professor Suzanne Kuys leads the postgraduate Rehabilitation program. Professor Kuys has considerable clinical, teaching and research experience with people following stroke and other neurological conditions and older adults, particularly people undergoing rehabilitation and transitioning from the hospital to home.

Professor Kuys has been a clinician for 25 years, with more than 15 years’ experience in stroke rehabilitation, and a strong interest in gait and balance retraining. Her recent research interests include physical activity, how we can get older people and people with disabilities to undertake physical activity, and the benefits to these groups from a health and societal perspective. Professor Kuys is interested in examining how health services can optimise health outcomes for patients. Her research interests include hospital-based rehabilitation and care, stroke, balance and gait retraining, outcome measures and physical activity.