Dr Sarah Prescott

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brain Injury

Dr Sarah Prescott is an occupational therapist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Sarah has over 20 years of clinical experience working in brain injury rehabilitation in Australia and the UK, across inpatient and community-based settings. In 2008, she founded her private practice to provide specialist community-based brain injury rehabilitation in Queensland.
Sarah completed her PhD in 2018 on the topic of client-centred goal setting in the rehabilitation of community dwelling clients with acquired brain injury. Since completion of her PhD, together with her clinical work, she has conducted research using mixed methodologies in the field of brain injury rehabilitation and cognitive rehabilitation and has worked as a Clinical Educator in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, at the University of Queensland. Sarah has a special interest in developing and testing interventions that are informed by the lived experience of people with brain injury. Sarah will work with Dr Emmah Doig on the MRFF funded project Co-creating virtual environments with consumers to enhance self-awareness and preparedness for home after brain injury.