Associate Professor Elizabeth Lynch

Associate Professor Elizabeth Lynch is a strategic and creative leader in stroke rehabilitation research, known for driving change through inclusive, person-centred approaches. With expertise in multidisciplinary collaboration, capacity-building, implementation science and policy engagement, she leads national and international initiatives that embed lived experience into stroke research and evidence-based practice. She co-chairs the Australian New Zealand Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management and led development and evaluation of learning modules (now hosted by Stroke Foundation) to support academic researchers and people with lived experience of stroke to work together effectively in stroke research.

Current projects involve development and evaluation of a co-designed website to support self-efficacy after stroke, exploring initiatives to support Life After Stroke and chairing an International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance roundtable on advancing how to involve people with lived experience of stroke in recovery research.  Liz is committed to improving stroke rehabilitation globally; she is on the World Stroke Organization Rehabilitation Implementation Committee, and has formal advisory roles with teams from Singapore, India and Indonesia who have developed locally relevant stroke rehabilitation guidelines or established new rehabilitation services. She leads the Lived Experience Engagement workgroup for the South Australian Cardiovascular Research Network and has been a member of the Health Translation SA Consumer Community Engagement Action Group since its inception in 2019.

Research interests:

• Stroke rehabilitation and Life After Stroke

• Implementation science

• Clinical practice guidelines

• Information provision

• Collaborative research methodologies