Roger Rees

Roger Rees is Emeritus Professor of Disability and Research at Flinders University, where he spent over 25 years involved in the rehabilitation and education of people with brain injury. He has a PhD in Education and Neuroscience from University of New England. He has twelve broadcast scripts for the ABC Radio National's Science Show, and his poems and essays have been published in The Australian, The Advertiser, The Age, Australian Journal of Psychology, Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Neuro Rehabilitation among many others.

Roger has received ARC and commercial grants and awards for research and investigative writing, and the Flinders University Excellent Achievement Medal for his promotion of equal opportunities. He’s the author of eight published works including a collection of poetry. When he’s not writing, he reads the work of the many Russian poets who line his shelves - Pushkin, Akhmatova, Blok, and Pasternak.