Megan McAuliffe

Megan Jane McAuliffe is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in speech production changes due to neurological injury, disease and ageing.

Academic career

McAuliffe completed a PhD titled An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease at the University of Queensland. McAuliffe then joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor. As of 2024 she is the Dean of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research. McAuliffe is co-director, with Catherine Theys, of the Speech-Language Neuroscience Lab at Canterbury. McAuliffe was an editor on the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research from 2017 to 2020.

Selected works