In a career spanning three continents, Professor Ruth Grant held academic and professional practice appointments in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Ruth retired from the University of South Australia in 2002. She was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus by the University in recognition of her outstanding contribution through research and practice in her profession both nationally and internationally, and for her contribution to the University. In 2011, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to physiotherapy, to education and to the advancement of clinical health sciences in Australia.
Prior to her retirement she was Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of Health Sciences and Vice President, Health Sciences with academic leadership and strategic management responsibility for a very large multidisciplinary health sciences faculty.
Professor Grant now works primarily as a Consultant. She has considerable expertise in accreditation in the health sciences. Her accreditation experience includes discipline reviews in the health professions, accreditation of flexibly delivered postgraduate general practice medical programs for the US DETC Accrediting Commission (Washington DC), and the accreditation of physiotherapy schools in Australian universities. Until December 2007, she was Chair of the Australian Physiotherapy Council. She is currently the Chair of the APC Accreditation Committee (Specialist Programs). Past consultancies include as specialist advisor to the Post Implementation Reviews of the University Departments of Rural Health Program, and of the More Allied Health Services and the Workforce Support for General Practitioners Programs funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Ruth was a member of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) Expert Group on Academic Standards in Australian Higher Education. She was an Auditor for AUQA for over a decade prior to its absorption into TEQSA. In this role she chaired, or was a panel member of numerous audits of universities, as well as non self-accrediting higher education providers and state/territory higher education accreditaiton authorities.
Professor Grant is an external auditor for the Oman Accreditation Council and for the Bahrain Quality Assurance Authority.
Ruth is on the Advisory Board of the Nutritional Physiology Research Group of the University of South Australia. She chairs the University's Successful Ageing Seminars.
Qualifications
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Master of Applied Science (Research on Manipulative Therapy) South Australian Institute of Technology
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Graduate Diploma of Advanced Manipulative Therapy South Australian Institute of Technology
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Bachelor of Physical Therapy University of Manitoba
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Diploma of Physiotherapy The University of Melbourne