Sally Candlin is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Western Sydney and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has worked as a midwife and health visitor in the UK and since moving to Australia, has taught nursing and health science to both undergraduate and post-graduate students, particularly in the field of professional communication. She currently teaches in the postgraduate program in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, co-convening the subject Professional Client Communication.

 

Sally was awarded a PhD from the University of Lancaster for her research in the area of the discourse of nurses and patients, Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Hawaii, and BA (Hons) double major in psychology and linguistics from the University of Lancaster.