Joseph Kei, PhD, MAudSA, CCP, is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Audiology and Director of the Hearing Research Unit for Children, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. He received a Postgraduate Diploma in Special Education (Hearing Impairment) at the Burwood State College in 1982 and Postgraduate Diploma in Audiology at the University of Melbourne in 1983. From 1984 to 1994, he worked as an educational audiologist at the Special Education Section of the Hong Kong Education Department. Since 1994, he has been working at the University of Queensland. He obtained his PhD at the same university in 1998. His research interests include middle ear assessments in newborns and young infants, diagnostic assessments using otoacoustic emissions, and auditory evoked responses, high frequency auditory function in children and speech perception. He has published over 68 scientific journal articles and presented over 43 papers at national and international conferences including keynote and plenary addresses. He is an editorial board member of three international journals.
