DrPetra Avramovic

Petra Avramovi? is a lecturer, clinical educator, an early career researcher, and certified practicing speech pathologist. Petra completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology) with First Class Honours and completed her PhD within the Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab at The University of Sydney.

She has held a number of roles in clinical and research settings with a variety of populations, with particular focus in working with people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Petra has worked across the public health sector as well as NGOs.

Her thesis, entitled "The development and evaluation of convers-ABI-lity: an online communication partner training platform for people with traumatic brain injury", aimed to collaboratively develop a novel digital health communication partner training program with people with TBI and others involved in their care, and to evaluate its feasibility for improving conversation skills following acquired brain injury (ABI). Her research in co-designing cognitive-communication interventions with key interest-holders, has laid the groundwork for the development of the Social Brain Toolkit, a suite of tools to support people with ABI and their communication partners have positive and successful conversations and social media experiences.

Petra is involved in academic, clinical education, and research supervision for speech pathology students within the university.