Megan Jane McAuliffe is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in speech production changes due to neurological injury, disease and ageing.
McAuliffe completed a PhD titled An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease at the University of Queensland.
[1] McAuliffe then joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.
[5] McAuliffe's research focuses on neurological causes of speech impairment, called dysarthria, and she is particularly interested in comparing speech production and perception during healthy ageing and neurological impairment, such as Parkinson's disease.
She has explored how speech production changes due to accent, ageing and neurological disease and injury.