Professor Grahame Simpson

Professor Grahame Simpson is Director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group at the Ingham Institute for South Western Sydney, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University. He has dual professional qualifications as a social worker and psychologist, and has worked for the past 30 years as a clinician and researcher based at the Liverpool Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit in Liverpool Hospital. Grahame’s research interests focus on positive adjustment to traumatic injury in the areas of mental health including suicide prevention, employment, sexual health, community participation and family resilience. He has over 100 publications including books, chapters and articles published in peer review journals and has been awarded more than $14 million dollars in research funding. He is current Co-Editor of Brain Impairment, the official journal of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment; member of two other editorial boards (Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation; Australian Social Work); immediate past convenor of the National Research Committee of the Australian Association of Social Workers; and co-founder of the International Network of Social Workers in Acquired Brain Injury.