BA (Hons Psych), PhD, C Psychol, MAPS, FBPsS, FCollP, FIARLD, FASSA

Since 1990, Kevin Wheldall has been Professor of Education at Macquarie University and Director of Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC). (He has also served as Principal of MUSEC School for Children with Special Learning Needs, 1990-2007). Prior to this he was Director of the Centre for Child Study at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

A registered psychologist, he is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the College of Preceptors and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and of its College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists. He has served as President of Learning Difficulties Australia (2006-2007). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2006 and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities in 2007. In 2007, in a review of research quality within Macquarie University, he was ranked in the highest category as being within the top ten per cent of researchers in his field internationally. In 2008, he was presented with the Mona Tobias Award of Learning Difficulties Australia "in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of learning difficulties in Australia."

He has researched and written extensively in the area of learning and behaviour difficulties with particular emphasis on classroom behaviour management and helping low-progress readers. He is the author of over two hundred academic books, chapters, and journal articles in the field of educational (and child) psychology and Special Education. He also edits the international journal 'Educational Psychology' and a joint editor of The Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. He has also written extensively for teachers and parents and has produced a number of training and instructional materials.

He has served as the Associate Dean (Research) of the Australian Centre for Educational Studies, Macquarie University (2004-2006). He has acted as an adviser to both state and federal government education bodies and ministers on matters relating to Special Education generally and on behaviour and reading in particular. He is also the Director of MULTILIT ('Making Up Lost Time In Literacy'), both a research and development initiative and an overall intervention program targeting low-progress readers. This includes the position of Director of the MULTILIT Research Unit at Macquarie University Special Education Centre and Director and Chairman of the Board of MULTILIT Pty Ltd. In 2005, he was presented with a Macquarie University Community Outreach Award for his work on MULTILIT with socially disadvantaged groups and in 2008, he was inducted into the Macquarie University Innovators' Hall of Fame. He is currently working on a major federally funded roll out of MULTILIT in indigenous communities in Cape York to improve the reading and related skills of aboriginal students.

In addition to his academic writing, he writes regularly for professional and popular magazines and newspapers and his opinions on matters educational (especially with regard to reading and related literacy skills) are frequently sought by the media (print, radio and television).