Dr Laura Jolliffe is a Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Monash University, the Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation Lead at Peninsula Health, and an experienced occupational therapist (neurosciences). Her NHMRC supported PhD, conferred in 2020, investigated how to implement guideline recommendations into the everyday practices of neurorehabilitation clinicians (thesis title: Improving Evidence-Based Implementation of Guidelines in Rehabilitation). She has published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and has delivered presentations (and invited presentations) both nationally and abroad.  

Laura’s research interests include: Implementation interventions, stroke, rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation, audit and feedback, process evaluation, psychometric properties of outcome measures, decision aids, and consumer involvement in decision making.

Laura is a member of the SmartStrokes Conference Scientific Committee (2022), a member of the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) Quality Improvement and Implementation Group (2020-current), and a member of four working groups of the Australian Stroke Foundation Clinical Practice Guidelines.