Dr Michelle Swift is a Senior Lecturer in the Speech Pathology Program at UniSA.
Dr Swift obtained her PhD at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, completed a post-doc at the Institute of Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR), The University of Alberta, Canada and has a Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) from Flinders University. For over 15 years she has taught into and coordinated Fluency Disorders courses at both Bachelors and Masters level across Australia and internationally, as well as providing clinical education to Speech Pathology students on placement. In 2017, as part of the Fluency Teaching Team in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, she won the Vice President and Executive Dean's Team Award for research and teaching excellence.
Dr Swift's research has been published in Q1 journals including the prestigious Journal of Fluency Disorders. Her research interests include the lived experience of communication disorders and outcomes of the real-world application of stuttering and cluttering treatments. She has supervised and assessed Higher Degree by Research students at the Honours, Masters and Doctorate level.
Dr Swift strongly believes that being a practising clinician makes her a better researcher and lecturer. She is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist and currently works part-time in a clinical practice focussing on stuttering, cluttering and other fluency disorders. Dr Swift has completed professional development training in a wide range of stuttering treatments including the Lidcombe Program, RESTART-DCM, Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, The Camperdown Program, Smooth Speech and the ISTAR Comprehensive Stuttering Program, along with short-course training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy for children and adults who stutter.