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Dr Iona Brown

Job: Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader Speech and Language Therapy

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Allied Health Sciences

Address: Hawthorn Building, The Newarke, Leicester UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44(0)116 207 8809

E: abrown02@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Iona works in the area of speech and language therapy, specifically in the field of motor speech disorders and gender affirming voice. Her research interests are communication and social capital in Parkinson’s disease: social participation, social activity, social networks and social anxiety. She is also interested in: community driven resources for gender-affirming voice, and the discourse of speech and language therapy. She teaches motor speech disorders, cognitive psychology, and research methods and the constructs of evidence. She works in collaboration with theatre-trained professionals to deliver workshops for gender-affirming voice development.

Publications and outputs

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Research interests/expertise

Gender-affirming voice, communication and social capital in communication impairment: social participation, social activity, social networks and social anxiety. Use of AI in assessment and learning.

Areas of teaching

  • Motor speech disorders
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Research methods and statistics

Qualifications

  • PhD in Motor Speech Disorders
  • MA English Language and Literature
  • BSc Speech and Psychology

Ογ½ΆΙη taught

  • Research Informed Speech and Language Therapy
  • Dissertation Project.

Membership of external committees

  • External Examiner Manchester metropolitan University
  • External Examiner University of Sheffield

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Registered Member Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
  • Member British Aphasiology Society.

Professional licences and certificates

Registered with Health Professions Council as Speech and Language Therapist.

Conference attendance

  • International Motor Speech Conference, Santa Rosa CA, 2012
  • Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Scientific Conference, London, 2009
  • International Dysarthria Conference, Sheffield UK, 2007.

Consultancy work

Review panel chair and subject specialist reviewer for CORU

Institutional Performance Review Coordinator (HCPC)

Gender Affirming Voice Workshops for Leicestershire LGBTQ+ Centre

Internally funded research project information

Supporting Assessment Innovation Through AI Literacy and Staff Development

Professional esteem indicators

  • Former member Committee for Rperesentatives of Education in Speech and Language Therapy
  • International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2011 – present, reviewer
  • Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011 – present, reviewer.
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