Associate ProfessorIsabelle Boisvert

PhD, MPA, MAudSa, FHEA

Dr Isabelle Boisvert is Associate Professor in Audiology, within the discipline of Speech Pathology (Communication sciences and disorders). She is the academic lead for the Hearing, Speech and Communication Major, the Technology and Accessibility stream lead for the Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP), and the clinical audiology lead for the on-campus SPEECH clinic. She is also a member of the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative (EPIC).

Isabelle's research and teaching focus on the reliability and relevance of information and services available for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. She prioritises a holistic and pragmatic approach to communication, which typically combines a flexible range of adaptations and technologies.

Integrating perspectives from adults with hearing loss, their significant others, clinicians, device manufacturers and policymakers, she has published on clinical decision making, comparisons of intervention options, as well as physiological and patient-reported measures of listening effort and communication. Her 2023 Nature Medicine article highlights multidisciplinary opportunities and challenges prompted by cutting-edge innovation in hearing technologies.

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Academic progression: A/Prof Boisvert completed a Bachelor's and a Master' degree in clinical Audiology at the University of Montreal in 2004. She then developed broad clinical practice experience in Canada, working in general diagnostic & interdisciplinary rehabilitation audiology, cochlear implantation, home adaptation, tinnitus, and dual sensory loss services.

After moving to Australia, A/Prof Boisvert completed her PhD at Macquarie University (2013), in collaboration with the HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (Australia), the Linnaeus Centre HEAD (Cognitive Hearing Sciences) at Linköping University in Sweden, and 5 cochlear implant centres located in Australia, Canada and Sweden. She also held a clinical research role with the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre (RIDBC, now Nextsense). Between 2012-2019, she held a postdoctoral research position in combination with a research program coordination role at Macquarie University with the HEARing CRC, and was a founding member of the Macquarie Research Centre HEAR.