This is a list of the current committee members and their roles. If you are
interested in a particular activity of BAS, please contact the committee
member responsible for that area.
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Chair |
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Secretary |
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Membership Secretary |
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Treasurer |
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Newsletter Editor |
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Therapy Symposium Co-ordinator |
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Student Prize Coordinator |
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Research in Progress Co-ordinator |
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Website Co-ordinator |
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Conference Support Fund Officer |
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BASics Officer |
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Publicity Officer |
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Speakability Representative |
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Committee Member |
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Frauke Buerk Chair
Frauke Buerk is a speech and language therapist who works with Adults in the Community in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her main focus is providing and developing services for people with aphasia and their families. One of her interests is improving services for people with aphasia, as well as involving and supporting relatives and carers in the process of coming to terms and living in the community with aphasia. In the past Frauke has carried out some research investigating monitoring therapy in people with specific speech production problems.
Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy Department
Adults in the Community
Newcastle General Hospital
Westgate Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 6BE
Tel: 0191 256 3463
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 the University of Newcastle. She is Co-Director of the North East Aphasia Centre and is involved in teaching aphasia to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include the assessment and treatment of aphasia, focusing particularly on difficulties affecting verb and sentence processing.
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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Christos Salis - Research-in-Progress Co-ordinator
Christos works at the University of Reading and has a clinical contract with Berkshire West PCT.
He is involved in the teaching of aphasia, dementia, TBI and research methods to speech and language therapy
students at Reading. He is actively involved in aphasia research and his interests involve theory and treatment of
sentence processing deficits in aphasia
Contact details:
Tel: 0118 378 74 67
Email: research-in-progress@bas.org.uk
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Catherine Tattersall -
Website Co-ordinator
Catherine is a speech and language therapist who works for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals Univeristy Trust.
She works with adults across the acute stage after stroke, in rehab and for the Early Supported Discharge Team.
Her main research interests are acquired language disorders and factors that affect lexical retrieval processes.
Please email any comments or suggestions about the BAS website to Catherine.
Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy Department
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Prescott Street
Liverpool
L7 8XP
Tel: 01512826318
Email: 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 newly-formed 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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Heather Waldron -
Student Prize Co-ordinator
For further information about the Student Project and Essay Prizes, click here.
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.
Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy Department
Sunderland Royal Hospital
Kayll Road
Sunderland
SR4 7TP
Email: prizes@bas.org.uk
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Emma Eaton -
BASics Officer
Emma works full-time as a speech and language therapist in Hastings. She covers stroke-related communication disorders in acute, sub-acute and community settings when she's not too busy with dysgraphia caseload(!). Her speacialist interest is spoken word production and it's breakdown in aphasia, and she is currently working on a PhD in jargon aphasia at City University.
Contact details:
Speech and Language Therapy
Egerton Unit
Conquest Hospital
Hastings
East Sussex
TN37 7RD
Tel: 01424 755255 ext. 8767
email: basics@bas.org.uk
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TBA -
Publicity Officer
Contact details:
Email: publicity@bas.org.uk
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Melanie Derbyshire - Speakability Representative
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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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Annette Cameron -
Committee Member
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Last updated: 7 March 2010 |
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