Christos Salis- Chair

Christos joined BAS in 2008 as a research in progress co-ordination (currently known as research update). He has been Chair of BAS since 2010. Christos is a lecturer in Speech & Language Sciences (Newcastle University) and a practising speech and language therapist at the North East Aphasia Centre (Newcastle University). Before joining Newcastle, he was a lecturer at the University of Reading and Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh). As a speech and language therapist he has worked in adult acquired communication disorders since 2000 in several NHS localities (Hampshire, Berkshire, Scottish Borders). His research focuses on sentence/discourse processing deficits (understanding and production, assessment and treatment) in adults with stroke-induced aphasia and how these deficits are influenced by linguistic and memory variables.

Contact details:

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Email: chair@bas.org.uk

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Fiona Stewart - Secretary

Fiona Stewart is a Speech & Language Therapist who works in the Adult Neurological Disorders team for City Hospitals Sunderland. She is based in Neuro-rehabilitation and Acute Stroke wards, but also works in other in-patient wards and holds a small community caseload.

In the past Fiona has been involved in a range of research projects including semantic processing in aphasia (PhD research funded by the Department of Health), memory after stroke. She has also worked as a Research & Development Facilitator supporting research consumption and development for a range of healthcare professionals.

Contact details:
Email: secretary@bas.org.uk

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Clare Telford- Membership Secretary

details to come

Contact details:

Email: membership-secretary@bas.org.uk

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Janet Webster- Treasurer

Janet Webster is a speech and language therapist who works in Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. She works in the North East Aphasia Centre which provides intensive therapy for people with aphasia and is also involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include the assessment and treatment of aphasia, focusing particularly on difficulties affecting verb and sentence processing and reading comprehension.

Contact details:
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
King George VI Building
University of Newcastle
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Tel: 0191 222 5235
Email: treasurer@bas.org.uk

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Claire Gatehouse - Therapy Symposium Co-ordinator

For further information about the Therapy Symposium, click here.

Chief SLT for Rehabilitation & Research, Plymouth Primary Care Trust

I qualified from Central School of Speech & Drama in 1986 and worked in the various aspects of the adult neurological field, London & Essex. In 1991 I took up a four-year research post at Birkbeck College, investigating cognitive neurological aspects of aphasia and aphasia therapy. During this period I began lecturing in SLT, firstly at Central and then at UCL. In 1995, I returned to clinical practice at National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery at Queen Square, alongside lecturing at UCL and moved to a full-time clinical post at Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow in 1997.
I moved to Plymouth in 2001 and did a series of short-term locums between having two children. I have been working in current post since January 2005.
My areas of interest continue to be cognitive neuropsychology in aphasia, single case studies in clinical practice, MDT team working, outcome measurement, service delivery and clinical education.

Contact details:
Chief Speech & Language Therapist,
Day Therapy Unit, Room OPD 40,
Local Care Centre,
Mount Gould Road,
Plymouth, PL4 7QD
Tel. 01752 (4)34803 / 34806

Email: therapy-symposium@bas.org.uk

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Lotte Meteyard- Research Update Meetings Co-ordinator

Lotte Meteyard is a Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading, UK. In this post, she practices as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), carries out research and teaches trainee SLTs and postgraduate students. Lotte completed a doctorate at University College London (UCL), with Professor Gabriella Vigliocco and then post-doctroal research with Professor Karalyn Patterson at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK. She completed training to be an SLT at UCL, before starting a post at the University of Reading. Lotte works with adults with acquired language and communication needs at the University of Reading clinic and supports the Adult Acute team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Contact details:

Email: research-in-progress@bas.org.uk

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Helen Kelly - Website Co-ordinator

Helen is a lecturer in Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. Before joining UCC, she was a lecturer at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and worked as a speech and language therapist with adults with acquired communication and swallowing impairments in the NHS Scotland. She is involved in teaching aphasia and quantitative research methods to undergraduate and post-graduate students. Research interests include the assessment and treatment of post-stroke aphasia with particular interest in 'new learning' abilities in people with aphasia and how this could potentially be harnessed in rehabilitation.

Please email any comments or suggestions about the BAS website to Helen.

Contact details:

Dept Speech and Hearing Sciences
Brookfield Health Sciences Complex
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland


website@bas.org.uk

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Suzanne Beeke- Conference Support Fund Officer

Suzanne is a speech and language therapist who is the head of the Research Department of Language and Communication at University College London, which is made up of those members of the old Human Communication Sciences department whose research interests are acquired disorders of speech, language, communication and swallowing. She is involved in teaching aphasia and qualitative research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate SLT students. Her research interests include the application of Conversation Analysis to the study of aphasia, and the development and evaluation of conversation-based therapy for people with agrammatic aphasia.

Contact details:
Email: conference-support-fund@bas.org.uk

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Dianne Webster - Newsletter Editor

Dee is a speech and language therapist working in Sheffield in a Community Stroke Team, providing intensive therapy as part of a multidisciplinary team. She also works part time as a Research Associate at Sheffield University alonside Ruth Herbert on a project investigating computer therapy for word finding difficulties.

For further information about the BAS newsletter, click here.

Contact details:
Department of Human Communication Sciences
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA

Email: newsletter@bas.org.uk

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Jennifer Vigouroux - Student Prize Co-ordinator

Jennifer Vigouroux is a Speech and Language Therapist working between the Newcastle Hospital's Trust as a community lead for aphasia and as a clinical educator at the Aphasia Centre at Newcastle University. Jennifer has specialised in working with adults with acquired and progressive neurological disorders with a particular interest in acquired aphasia and cognitive-communicative difficulties subsequent to TBI.

For further information about the Student Project and Essay Prizes, click here.

Contact details:
Expert Practitioner (Aphasia)
Speech and Language Therapist
Newcastle Hospitals Community Health
Denton Park Health Centre
West Denton Way
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE5 2QW
Tel: 0191 2295845
Email: prizes@bas.org.uk

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Contact details:

email: basics@bas.org.uk

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Paul Conroy - Publicity Officer

Paul Conroy is a Clinical Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Manchester. He qualified via City University in 1993 and then worked in Adult Acquired clinical posts in Liverpool, London and Shropshire for 12 years. In 2005 he commenced a PhD funded by the Stroke Association investigating errorless therapy techniques for verb processing deficits in aphasia. He has an honorary clinical contract via the Shropshire Enablement Team and his research interests include word retrieval, sentence and writing therapies in aphasia.

Contact details:
Email: publicity@bas.org.uk

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Melanie Derbyshire - Speakability Representative

Click here to jump to Speakability (formerly ADA: Action for Dysphasic Adults)

Contact details:
Speakability
1 Royal Street
London SE1 7LL
Tel: 020 7261 9572
Fax: 020 7928 9542

Email: melanie.speakability.org.uk

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Heather Waldron-

Heather is a Speech and Language Therapist who currently works part time at Sunderland Royal Hospital with a mixed adult neurology caseload. This includes acute inpatient and community outpatient work with people who have had a Stroke as well as people with other neurological conditions. She is also studying part time for a PhD at Newcastle University, funded by a grant from the Stroke Association. Her PhD research is looking at therapy for people with aphasia who have phonological assembly difficulties.