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Speech & Language Therapist trained in 🇮🇳/Academic/Creating co-learning spaces for #antiracism in SLT at University of Essex/Views are mine

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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Being part of this protest meant a lot to me. I felt the power of our collective, every single person out there was standing up for justice. #ProtectEducation #SaveJobs
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Compulsory redundancies, 400 job losses, a campus closed. The justification has always been: we have 2612 staff. This is the number the VC has used repeatedly to justify this unprecedented attack on our jobs. But the latest financial figures from the uni say that we actually only have 2273...?
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This is why we're on strike. Not to piss management off. Not to make students suffer. But to prove that we're *not* redundant - no matter what Frances says. If we take even a few days off, vital work doesn't get done. A university is nothing without its staff.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Today, we're shining a spotlight on Language & Linguistics - one of the founding departments of the University of Essex, and a very strong department on the national scale, and - as part of a cynical and short-sighted cost-cutting exercise - a department slated for 50% cuts by VC Frances Bowen.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Today, in a branch meeting with unprecedented attendance, Essex UCU overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in our VC Frances Bowen and her senior management team for their appalling handling of the current financial shambles.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Read our letter to Julie here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign our petition to help avert this crisis - stop the cuts, save Southend, protect education: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Thanks! 💚
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Letter to Samaritans workers and community
We are writing to you as members of the University of Essex facing an unprecedented restructuring process involving proposed 400 redundancies and the closure of our Southend campus. A member of our Un...
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Julie will know that job insecurity increases risk of suicide: in fact, 1 in 5 suicides is linked to unemployment. We'd like to ask her whether the alternatives to compulsory redundancies were fully explored on Council. Was she given the opportunity to read UCU's fully costed alternative proposals?
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
UCU Essex supports the crucial work @samaritans.bsky.social do. Our students and staff include a number of proud Samaritans volunteers 💚 Julie Bentley, CEO of Samaritans, sits on our University Council - which has just approved 400+ redundancies. We went to raise awareness at Sams HQ today.
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Comrade Frances joined us on the pickets today! Well, she passed by while jogging. But she took a moment to blame us for not telling members just how seriously management are taking our proposals. Apparently we should be working together 🙏 This is the most we've seen of her since Christmas btw 🥰
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David Burton-Sampson MP @davidbsampson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
We have written a further letter to the Vice Chancellor at the University of Essex further to meetings held over the last week and additional questions and concerns that have been raised!
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What a way to say “thank you for all the work you did getting this trying term to a good end”: risk of redundancy letters to go into the Christmas break. Wishing triplet ghost visits upon Essex management. And sending much solidarity to all @ucuessex.bsky.social
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Pam Cox MP, former member of staff at the University of Essex, speaks out against redundancies and course closures 👏 www.facebook.com/reel/2288732...
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3.3K views · 88 reactions | Today I raised the issue of university redundancies and course closures in the House of Commons and have requested a meeting with Ministers to discuss the situation at the ...
Today I raised the issue of university redundancies and course closures in the House of Commons and have requested a meeting with Ministers to discuss the situation at the University of Essex in more....
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Sam McLean @sammcleanntcc.bsky.social on Essex Pathways, the University's experts on foundation year provision. "[O]nce that department is gone, it's gone. It would take decades to rebuild the hundreds of years of combined experience that run it."
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The University of Essex has announced it is looking to cut staff and close one of its campuses as it looks to create a more “sustainable” future. Juliette Rowsell reports www.timeshighereducation.com/news/e…
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Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Please join us for our next CPD event! 🙂🙏🏽👇🏽
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Bilingualism London CEN @bilingualismloncen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If you’re a #student or #SLT2B interested in sharing your #research on #bilingualism with a friendly group of members from our Bilingualism Clinical Excellence Network, please get in touch - bilingualismlondoncen@gmail.com All our CPD events are online and they’re usually at lunch time (12-1pm).
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Anna Caute @annacaute.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Kannada version of the CGC is available here: osf.io/yt24q Congratulations to Chirag for his excellent MSc project at Uni of Essex.
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British Aphasiology Society @basaphasia.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The City Gesture Checklist has been adapted and translated into Kannada by Chirag Girish Kiran in collaboration with his supervisors; this was a complex process with lots of considerations e.g., cultural differences, differences in dialect, vocabulary choice #BASconf25
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
me and @snelljulia.bsky.social are doing a joint keynote at this UKLA/NEU conference, talking about futures of linguistic justice and designing linguistically just schools 💜 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literacy-i...
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Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference
Join the NEU and UKLA for our Literacy in Primary Classrooms Conference!
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
the London Association for the Teaching of English conference is on Saturday 5 July and is all about oracy. i am giving keynote on oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
Oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice


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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s had over 2,500 downloads in its first year! We’re so proud   If you’d like to learn more or you’d like to start a peer support group, you can find all the information at: salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects... @katiecebula.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social @sarahefoley.bsky.social
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NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit)
NEST (NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit) is a suite of materials to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people in mainstream secondary schools. The toolkit has been co-created by resear...
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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s the Neurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST)’s first birthday!!   A year ago, we launched this free, co-designed, research informed tool to support mainstream secondary schools to establish peer support groups for neurodivergent young people.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
these teachers were 🔥. all working to resist linguistic injustice in spite of dominant deficit discourses about language, individualistic theories of social change, oppressive policy pressures, and inadequate school management 💕
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cltt.bsky.social @cltt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Zoom code now available for our free CLTT Summer Lecture 2025. We look forward to welcoming Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson on 11.06.25 (4pm BST). The informative lecture is Neurodiversity, Communication and Inclusive Education. essex-university.zoom.us/j/94311867295 Meeting ID: 943 1186 7295
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
i am giving a keynote at the London Association for the Teaching of English conference on the 5 July: Oracy, deficit thinking and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthc...
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Forthcoming Conferences
Winter 2024 LATE Conference: ‘What Space for English?’ on 7th December
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cltt.bsky.social @cltt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Save the date” for our Summer Lecture 2025! Ticket details to follow.
Poster for CLTT’s summer lecture featuring summer items and a picture of our lively speaker Sue Fletcher-Watson. The theme is on neurodiversity, communication and inclusive education.
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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It's #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek! But what is neurodiversity? We wrote an article for young people explaining what neurodiversity means for different people and day to day life! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Neurodiversity Can Explain Differences in How People Experience Everyday Life
Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a pe...
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please get in touch with Richard @rtslt.bsky.social #Polish #SLTs #SLPeeps #BskySpeechies 👇🏽
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Audiobook freaks! The audio version of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism is out now! www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DW13845...
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Empire of Normality
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'Groundbreaking . . . [provides] a deep history of the invention of the "normal" mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To rea...
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! 😀
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New Dates for Lis'n Tell: live inclusive storytelling Intensive Part 1. These trainings are for small groups - up to 10 only, so that we can work individually with each at some point, & so there is opportunity for grp convos/sharing experiences, not to mention the wrk on storytelling skills!
A poster of new dates for Lis'n Tell: live inclusive storytelling Intensive training - Part 1. Run for people living and/or working with children and adults with complex communication needs. Run by two Speech and Language Therapists: the founder of Lis'n Tell Louise Coigley and one of the advanced practitoners -Siobhan Ray. The course runs for two days - May 15th to May 16th 2025 at Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT. These trainings are for small groups - up to 10 only, so that we can work individually with each at some point, & so there is opportunity for grp conversation & sharing experiences, not to mention the work on storytelling skills! Please email Louise Coigley at lisntell@gmail.com for more info and booking. The fee is £300 with some bursaries available to individuals.
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Kim Mears @kimmears.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In July last year a wonderful group of people came together to create an ebooklet on neurodiversity to raise money for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Since then we have raised over £2000. Now more than ever the people of Gaza need our help. To get a copy see below. @commonsenseslt.bsky.social
Front page of booklet called ways of being knowing and doing.
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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 13/01/2025
Would you like to hear from some people with #aphasia about their views on #AI? New podcast from #RCSLT with me and Caitlin Longman. You can also hear Chat GPT over-promise its SLT credentials to support language practice! (Take that bit with a pinch of salt!). m.soundcloud.com/rcslt/how-is...
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How Artifical Intelligence is being used to support people living with aphasia
Play How Artifical Intelligence is being used to support people living with aphasia by RCSLT Sound Waves on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 13/01/2025
Interested in exploring #AI in your practice? Here's a list of potential activities Caitlin Longman and I have compiled to get you started: tinyurl.com/AIandSLT #Aphasia
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Alt: a group of people looking at a computer screen.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
in this article i show how racially marginalised pre-service teachers' alleged inability to use standard spoken English is a sign of pedagogical inferiority, whilst white teachers’ local vernaculars were heard as signs of coolness and relatability. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education
Racism is pervasive within the lives of racially minoritised pre-service teachers in England, but little work has explored how perceptions about language feature here. Based on interviews and works...
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#ResearchTuesday! Study explored the perceived implications of AI & generative language tools on SLP practice. Participants indicated a hesitancy, calling for institutional guidelines & training first: at.asha.org/vZ @sigperspectives.bsky.social #SLPeeps
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Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT by Speech-Language Pathologists and Students
Purpose: This project explores the perceived implications of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and generative language tools, like ChatGPT, on p...
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My #MENinSLP/SLT starter pack (not "my men", but rather "my starter pack") is building VERY slowly, but I just added @achoi-tucci.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES go.bsky.app/CGppBcH #MENinSpeech-LanguagePathology/Therapy
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Dr Becky Wood @thewoodbug.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
On ➡️ 15th January at 12pm ⬅️ I will be giving an online lecture on researching disability. Free to attend for anyone interested - you just need to register www.gla.ac.uk/schools/educ... Aimed at Masters/PhD students/early career researchers & anyone interested in the subject. 1/2
Poster advertising online lecture on Researching Disability by Dr Rebecca Wood at the University of Glasgow. The lecture is as 12pm on 15th January.
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Draško Kašćelan @drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It's great to see this work published just at the end of 2024! Thank you great team for leading on this! @catdavies.bsky.social The paper is open access and can be found here: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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Dr Becky Wood @thewoodbug.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Wow. And yet the narrative that social skills programmes are essential for autistic kids is deeply entrenched in the school system. I spend a fair bit of time trying to rebut this belief, and so great to have more evidence to back it up.
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Out of office ✅ Taking some time off to rest, recharge & recuperate. And to remind myself to #WorryLessLiveMore #TheresMoreToMyStory
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Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thank you to everyone who has completed our survey on UK paediatric SLTs intervention planning. The survey will be open until 3rd Jan if you would still like to take part. If you would like to help, please complete our survey: bit.ly/3Z3DNWv Please share with others if you can #mysltday
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From initial assessment to planning intervention for paediatric clients: what do UK SLTs need?
The study is aiming to find out which information allows speech and language therapists to select intervention goals. By overviewing speech and language therapists’ current practice in planning interv...
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Nice to see a new review of Empire of Normality in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books! marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2187...
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‘Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism’ by Robert Chapman reviewed by JR Parkin
A question facing anyone politicising an identity is the problem of proper representation. The often maligned fields of identity politics are never just concerned with agitating for the rights of thei...
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Mark Jayes PhD, FRCSLT @markjayes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Calling all #UK #SLTs! The brilliant @healthlibraryholly.bsky.social needs participants for her important #research on #accessible #information #easyread - what a great opportunity to help improve info access for ppl with #communication #disabilities @carohaw.bsky.social @abracabadger.bsky.social
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#TheresMoreToMyStory
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Some gatekeepers of knowledge do not accept/allow different ways of knowing.
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Sai @bangerasai.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I was hoping to get some things done before the Christmas break but there’s not enough time. And that’s ok. Things can wait for a bit.
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Mark Jayes PhD, FRCSLT @markjayes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Please join us on 18.12.24 at 16.30-17.30 GMT for our next @manmetuni.bsky.social #communication #disability #research #webinar to hear @abracabadger.bsky.social presenting "Data Visualization. What is it and how is it experienced by people with language disabilities?" Join on Teams: bit.ly/3ZdneGt
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Bilingualism London CEN @bilingualismloncen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It was so interesting to hear from Anna and Abi Roper about how the City Gesture Checklist (CGC) was developed as a quick screening tool to assess gestures in clinical practice. You can download the City Gesture Checklist here: lnkd.in/eJus2AxX 1/4
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