Rate My Professor Alex Little

Alex Little, professionally known as Mrs Alexandra Little, is a Lecturer in Speech Pathology in the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health, part of the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. She holds a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) from the University of Newcastle, having graduated in 2000. After graduation, she worked as a speech pathologist in rural settings across New South Wales and Queensland. She now serves as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health, providing education and training support to speech pathology students on rural clinical placements from bases in Tamworth and Armidale. Her research specializations encompass interprofessional learning and longitudinal workforce outcomes for students in rural clinical placements. In teaching, she delivers clinical education, interprofessional learning activities, and lectures on speech pathology practice in rural contexts. She designs and delivers discipline-specific and interprofessional simulation activities, coordinates the Tamworth Interprofessional Learning Modules program, participates in the Work Integrated Learning Interprofessional Education (WILIPE) program, and offers workshops and online materials on child development for early childhood educators and new paediatric health professionals.

Little's publications include the book chapter 'Putting interprofessional education into practice: Is it really as simple as it seems?', published in 2016. She has authored or co-authored numerous conference papers, including 'Navigating cross-purposes?: A new way of viewing collaborative practice' (2025), 'Embracing past and present horizons to pursue our interprofessional future' (2025), 'Shaping future practice: A thematic analysis of interprofessional learning module outcomes' (2025), 'Lego, Squirrels and Pigeons: Creative Approaches for Researching Healthcare Students’ Experience of How They are Prepared for Collaborative Practice' (2024), 'Developing Students' Collaborative Practice: Tapping into Rapport Between Clinical Educators from Different Professions' (2024), 'Designing an escape room to facilitate interprofessional learning in rural higher education: an educator journey' (2022), and 'Grappling with linguistic subtleties when teaching interprofessional practice: Can theory help move us from ‘bewilderment’ towards ‘clarity’?' (2021). Through her teaching innovations, program leadership, and research on collaborative rural healthcare education, Alex Little influences the development of interprofessional capabilities among health professionals.