Kaylee Rudd
SECG National Working group member - Professional Development and Events
Kaylee is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, completing her PhD in Nov 2025. Her research aims to understand the association between cognition and movement and to identify potential motor biomarkers to help detect early changes related to cognitive impairment. She worked as a physiotherapist in various clinical settings including hospitals, private practice, aged and community care, developing a good understanding of human movement characteristics. Her experience in Tasmanian's rural and regional aged and community care prompted her to learn more about dementia and motor changes related to dementia and to return to the university. She performs movement analysis in the new intelligent movement analysis centre in the University of Tasmania in close collaboration with the ISLAND Cognitive Clinic in Hobart. She also collaborates with researchers in the University of Sydney and the University of Leeds in the UK in dementia and movement analysis projects. She is a member of the award winning TasTest team (Vice-chancellor's Award 2023 and the Trailblazing Discovery Research Award. In 2021, she received Wicking Centre Erica Bell Honours Scholarship.