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I am a Senior University Teacher and Deputy Professional Lead for our Speech and Language Therapy Programmes in the School of Allied Health, Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery. I achieved a Senior Fellowship at the Higher Education Academy in 2022. My main areas of teaching include counselling skills, stammering, and eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties. I support clinical placement provision and assessment of clinical skills and also support disabled students to access reasonable adjustments for placement with Placement Adjustment Plans. 

I have a long track record of involvement in research in the department; I have worked on previous projects investigating computer-based therapies for adults with acquired communication difficulties with Dr Ruth Herbert and Professor Rosemary Varley. In 2011 I secured a Stroke Association Junior Research Training Fellowship investigating Semantic and Cognitive Processing in Aphasia. In 2017 I completed the part-time fellowship, which resulted in my PhD thesis: Insights into language processing in aphasia from semantic priming and semantic judgement tasks. In 2019 I was awarded a place on the HEE/NIHR ICA programme post-doctoral bridging scheme. 

I have clinical experience as a Speech and Language Therapist with a wide range of paediatric and adult client groups. As well as working at the University I am currently the Team Lead for the Rotherham Stroke Rehabilitation Team at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. I specialise in supporting adults with acquired communication changes and eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties post-stroke.

I am a registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Health and Care Professions Council.