Cheryl is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with an honours degree and PhD in psychology. She is currently working projects on the psychological sequelae after traumatic brain injury (TBI), including a Cochrane Systematic Review on the psychological treatment for anxiety in people with TBI. Cheryl is also project manager for a series of validation studies of the Care and Needs Scale (CANS; Tate, 2004), a measure of support needs for people with TBI, and its children’s equivalent, the Paediatric CANS (PCANS; Soo, Tate Williams, Croudace, Waugh, 2005). Cheryl currently holds Honorary Research Psychologist posts at both the Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick where she works collaboratively on projects focusing on emotional functioning and support needs of children with acquired brain injury.

Cheryl’s research interests include:
(1) Emotional and cognitive functioning after TBI
(2) Neurorehabilitation and cognitive behavioural therapy
(3) Systematic reviews
(4) Cultural issues and TBI
(5) Health outcome measurement

• Soo C, Tate RL, Hopman K, Forman M, Secheny T, Aird V, Browne S, Coulston C, Diffley L, Hummell S (2008). (Abstract) Reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Care and Needs Scale (CANS) for people with traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 9(1):92-93.

2007

• Soo CA, Tate RL, Hopman K, Forman M, Secheny T, Aird V, Browne S, Coulston C (2007). Reliability of the Care and Needs Scale for assessing support needs after traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(5):288-295.
• Soo CA, Tate RL (2007). (Cochrane Review) Psychological treatment for anxiety in people with traumatic brain injury. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, (Issue 3):1-25.
• Nightingale EJ, Soo CA, Tate RL (2007). (Abstract) Early prognostic factors for return to work after traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 8(1):96.
• Nightingale EJ, Soo CA, Tate RL (2007). A systematic review of early prognostic factors for return to work after traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 8(2):101-142.

2006

• Tate RL, Simpson G, Lane-Brown A, Pfaff A, Hodgkinson A, Veerabangsa A, Myles B, Soo C, Smith V (2006). (Abstract) Development of the Sydney Psychosocial Reintegration Scale: an update on the final version, normative and reference data. Brain Impairment, 7(1):58.
• Soo C, Tate R, Hopman K, Forman M, Secheny T, Browne S, Coulston C, Smith V (2006). (Abstract) Reliability and validity of the Care and Needs Scale (CANS) for assessing support needs after traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 7(1):60.

2005

• Tate RL, Strettles B, Hodgkinson A, Veerabangsa A, Soo C (2005). (Abstract) Long-term care and support needs after traumatic brain injury at 20-26 years post-trauma. Brain Injury, 19(Suppl.1):17.
• Tate RL, Broe GA, Hodgkinson AE, Cameron ID, Soo CA (2005). (Abstract) The natural history of recovery after severe traumatic brain injury: changes in functional status between 6 and 23 years posttrauma. Brain Impairment, 6(2):138.
• Tate RL, Broe GA, Cameron ID, Hodgkinson AE, Soo CA (2005). Pre-injury, injury and early post-injury predictors of long-term, functional and psychosocial recovery after severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 6(2):75-89.
• Soo CA, Tate RL, Williams L, Croudace S, Waugh MC (2005). (Abstract) The PCANS: adapting the Care and Needs Scale to a paediatric population with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 19(Suppl.1):37.
• Soo CA, Tate RL, Broe GA, Hodgkinson AE, Cameron ID (2005). (Abstract) Recreation participation as a function of employment at 23 years post-trauma in a rehabilitation sample with severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 6(2):137.
• Soo C, Tate R (2005). (Protocol) Psychological treatment for anxiety in people with traumatic brain injury. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 2.