Professor McArthur is the Director of the Macquarie University Reading Clinic, and Head of the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. Over the last 20 years, she has held positions at the University of Western Australia (PhD student and researcher), Curtin University (lecturer), Oxford University (Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow), and Macquarie University (NHMRC and ARC Research Fellow and administrator). The goal of her research is to determine what causes reading and language impairments in children, and discover how these impairments should be best treated. She is an active advocate for the rapid translation of scientific evidence into clinical practice.