Rate My Professor Kelley Graydon

Associate Professor Kelley Graydon is the Audiology Course Coordinator and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a graduate of the university's Audiology Class of 2004, bringing over two decades of experience in audiology education and research. Graydon has progressed through various academic appointments at the University of Melbourne, including leadership in learning and teaching initiatives, and contributes to the department's research hubs on scholarship and innovation.

Her research specializations include audiology education and training, such as near-peer simulated patient programs, anonymous patient feedback for developing communication skills, artificial intelligence-driven virtual patients, and e-learning simulations for clinical decision-making. Graydon investigates speech-in-noise recognition as a predictor of academic achievement, tone-burst auditory brainstem responses in full-term and preterm infants, remediation of spatial processing disorder, binaural processing consequences of early conductive hearing loss, and the global burden of hearing impairment and ear disease. Additional foci encompass tele-audiology infant diagnostics, family barriers to tele-services, combined on-site and tele-education for audiometry in Cambodia and Bangladesh, game-based hearing screening for primary school children, and auditory deficits in conditions like glaucoma and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Key publications include "Developing effective communication skills in audiology using anonymous patient feedback" (2024), "Tone-burst elicited auditory brainstem responses in full-term and pre-term infants" (2024), "Speech-in-noise recognition as a predictor of academic achievement" (2025), "Global burden of hearing impairment and ear disease" (2018), and "Remediation of spatial processing disorder (SPD)" (2018). Her scholarship has amassed over 400 citations and influenced global healthcare education and auditory research. Graydon has earned the 2025 MDHS Staff Excellence Award, Melbourne School of Health Sciences School Values Award, and 2024 University of Melbourne Excellence Award as part of the Audiology Teaching Team. She has delivered public contributions, including the Pursuit article "COVID-19 face coverings mask the message," and advanced Indigenous pathways through the Graduate Diploma of Hearing Health Care.