Lorraine Graham

Professor Lorraine Graham has a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Master of Arts (Education) along with teaching and special education degrees. She is Professor of Learning Intervention at the University of Melbourne. Past positions include Professor of Inclusion and Educational Psychology at the University of New England, Associate Director (student diversity) of the SiMERR National Research Centre and co-developer of the QuickSmart Numeracy and Literacy Programs.
She began as a primary school teacher in the 1980s and then continued her studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, where she worked with Professor Bernice Wong and her colleagues. During this time she developed and implemented the 3H reading comprehension strategy and taught in elementary school and tertiary settings, focusing on cognitive and metacognitive interventions for students with literacy learning disabilities.
On returning to Australia in May 1994, she joined the inclusive education and psychology team at the University of New England. From 2001 onwards, she has been involved in the development and scaling up of the QuickSmart Numeracy and Literacy programs. Her work with Professor John Pegg on QuickSmart alone has impacted over 12,000 Australian students drawn from more than 1,000 schools across the country.
During the last twenty-one years, Lorraine Graham has collaborated to attract over $9.8 million of research funding, including an ARC Linkage Grant (2013-2016), ARC Discovery Grant (2003-2005), and extensive research consultancies. She has contributed over 90 published academic works, including five books, and extensive educational resource materials (approximately 900 pages). She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Research into Learning Disabilities and recipient of UNE’s Team Award for Excellence in Research. She has held national, state, university and school-level senior service roles, most notably as an active member of a Prime Ministerial Working Group (2009-10), and part of a state-level Expert Advisory Committee for a National Partnerships’ Closing the Gap Grant (2011-2013). She was nominated in both the Academic Achievement and Professional Achievement categories of the 2013 Simon Fraser University Outstanding Alumni Awards, and is proud to have been nominated for the University of Southern Queensland’s Alumnus of the Year Award in 2015.
Lorraine’s career is focused on school inclusion, literacy strategies, basic academic skill interventions in numeracy and literacy and, ultimately, the effective teaching of all students.