Professor Yvonne Wren

Clinical researchers in the UK: reversing the decline These reports evaluate the current decline in clinical researchers, determines underlying causes and defines necessary actions across stakeholders at a national level.

Important report from the NMAHPs Task and Finish group, commissioned by the Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research to address decline in clinical academic workforce.
www.ukri.org/publications...

Five key action areas identified
Essential reading for UK clinical academics

Current Vacancies | North Bristol NHS Trust

Come and join our MISLToe_SSD team! Great opportunity for post doc in SLT, linguistics or psychology.
www.nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curr...

I didn't notice that!!

Well done @rhonwenlewis.bsky.social - I heard you were great!!

@samburrslt.bsky.social presenting at @icpla2025.bsky.social on speech sound development in pre term born children
Another presentation from @bristol-sltru.bsky.social and @cardiffmet.bsky.social and @cshcr.bsky.social

Strategic action plan to boost research by nurses, midwives and allied health professions in Wales A new research plan for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals has been launched today.

A new action plan has been launched to boost research skills and opportunities for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in Wales. Read more from healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/s... @welshgovernment.bsky.social @researchwales.bsky.social

Are you an SLT/SLP with vision difference? This could include vision loss, vision impairment, blindness, deafblindness, cortical/cerebral/neurological vision impairment. If so, Kate Crowe, University of Iceland would love to hear from you at kcrowe@hi.is.

Yeh! HI Elise. And welcome!

Ooh enjoy Susan. I was there in September. Lots going on in Brazil SLT. Exciting opportunities.

Thank you Caroline. This is a paper from our @misltoessd.bsky.social study where we've developed a Core Outcome Set for SSD (paper in submission). We've had great involvement from the UK SLTs with this. Looking forward to exploring options to take this further with other nations at ICPLA and beyond.

The SLCN Researchers WhatsApp Community is officially live! Join here: chat.whatsapp.com/KTzjCVahxLKE...

This is a free space for all speech, language and communication-related research-active folks to connect, network and share. I’m really excited to build this community up! #slpeeps

Sounds like a great project. Anyone interested? #bskySPEECHIES #DevLangDis

Great opportunity for an SLT interested in research to work with an excellent team on validating a new screening tool for adults with non-diagnosed DLD.
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Towards an Agreed Labelling System and Protocol for the Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder Subtypes in the United Kingdom Background There is no single classification system or diagnostic protocol for speech sound disorder (SSD). This makes it difficult to collect large-scale outcome data and determine which interventi.....

Our @misltoessd.bsky.social paper describing our consensus-based diagnostic protocol for subtyping #ChildSpeechDis is out now doi.org/10.1111/1460... .

Interested in undertaking a masters level dissertation with support? See this opportunity for health and social care professionals in the South West. Deadline 30th April.

Are you a health or social care professional in the South west and interested in developing research methods skills? Opportunity for an @chcr-uwe.bsky.social Personal Research Training award. Deadline 30th April so act quickly.

Poster providing information about cleft masters module at Cardiff Met University

Really excited to be promoting Cardiff Metropolitan University's modules in cleft palate for speech and language therapists. These provide vital training in cleft specialist skills and can either be taken as standalone modules or part of a Masters Programme
@cshcr.bsky.social @cardiffmet.bsky.social

Cleft@18-23 study is now recruiting participants across the UK! @cleft1823study.bsky.social

#cleft #cleft18-23 #cleftresearch #cleftlipandpalate

HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh visited @bristoluni.bsky.social to learn more about world-leading research funded by Scar Free Foundation. HRH visited the Cleft Collective as one of the studies funded by Scar Free for over 10 years.
Read more: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Image credit: James Allan

Writing a grant application is always daunting but when you are starting out, knowing what to write and how to write it can be overwhelming. This 3 day workshop from the NIHR (which I think is free) is an ideal opportunity to learn how to do it: nihr-rss-public-health-soton.org/egga2025-pro...

Fantastic opportunity to work with Prof McKean!

@clairemillsslt.bsky.social @charliestrutt.bsky.social @sarahhayward.bsky.social @hazelroddam.bsky.social @jowallinger.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social

Please share to open doors for #ResearchCurious SLTs 🤩

Forthcoming Books - J&R Press FORTHCOMING BOOKS

15% discount on the new Therapy Outcome Measure Handbook now available at www.jr-press.co.uk/forthcoming-....
Includes new PROM on principles of TOM — the TOM-PROM!
+ 6 new scales:
-Nutrition
-Assistive technology
-Long Covid
-Paediatric/developmental conditions
-Mental health
-Acquired conditions

Fantastic talk-thanks @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and @ebibristol.bsky.social
Common link between Amir, Selma and Paul(?)- challenges with communication/communication disability. Identifying methods of communicating which are accessible to all will have universal benefits. #communicationdisability

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance today!

As Alliance members, we're calling on the Government and policymakers to focus on speech, language and communication issues, ensuring the best outcomes for children and young people.

The Shaping Us Framework - CFEC

Great to see @drjennyg.bsky.social was involved in this centreforearlychildhood.org/our-work/res...

Looking forward to following RCSLT in UK parliament today, 4.30pm www.rcslt.org/news/invest-...

‘The end of women and children’s rights’: outrage as Iraqi law allows child marriage The Iraqi parliament has passed a ‘terrifying’ law permitting children as young as nine to marry

@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social why is this not being reported by BBC www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Exploring the Needs of Young People Born With Cleft Lip and/or Palate Approaching End of Routine Care, in the UK - Julie Davies, Elaine Davidson, Sam Harding, Yvonne Wren, Lucy Southby, 2025 Objective The aim of this study was to understand the needs of young people, aged 16 to 20 years, born with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) approaching end of ro...

Really pleased to have this as our first paper of 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interested in knowing how this work progressed - follow us on @cleft1823study.bsky.social
Get in touch with us if you want to know more or get involved and you are aged 18-30 and born with a cleft.

Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non‐syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties Background Children born with cleft palate ± lip (CP ± L) are at risk of speech sound disorder (SSD). Up to 40% continue to have SSD at age 5–6 years. These difficulties are typically described as a...

First paper from PhD published today…children with cleft lip/palate were at higher risk of language difficulties if they had phonological errors with or without cleft speech characteristics (CSCs). CSCs alone were not an indicator of lower language skills. Read more here dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...