Rosemary Varley is Professor of Acquired Language Disorders in the Department of Language and Communication at UCL. Previous posts have included work in the NHS and research/teaching posts at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Sheffield. Most of her work is directed at the investigation of post-stroke impairments in adults. Major research themes are the application of neuroscience to aphasia rehabilitation, the development of biologically plausible accounts of speech and language, and exploration of residual cognition in severe aphasia to establish the role of language in thought and other domains of cognition. She is co-author of the software SWORD, a program that allows people with post-stroke speech disorder to self-manage their therapy. She co-authored the textbook Introduction to Language Pathology (with David Crystal). She has published research in major international journals such as Nature Reviews Neuroscience and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. Her research is funded by government research councils and charities. In 2006, she was awarded an ESRC Professorial Fellowship.