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 twelve broadcast scripts for the ABC Radio National 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 and more.

Roger has received ARC grants and awards for his writing notably the Flinders University Excellent Achievement Medal for his writing and promotion of equal opportunities. He’s the author of eight published books and 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.