Meet the Network
The people working on this project are from across the UK and Ireland. They were drawn together by Professor Martine Smith (Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland) and Dr Lindsay Pennington (Newcastle University, UK) from a variety of organisations and backgrounds. You can find out more about our brilliant team by clicking on their name.
Dr Lindsay Pennington
- Reader in Communication Disorders and Honorary Consultant Speech and Language Therapist
- Newcastle University
- Email: lindsay.pennington@ncl.ac.uk
- Twitter: @LindsayPennin16
- UK project lead
Dr Yvonne Lynch
- Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Therapy
- Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Email: lynchyv@tcd.ie
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Louisa Reeves
- Head of Impact and Evidence
- I CAN the children’s communication charity
- Email: lreeves@ican.org.uk
- Twitter: @lreeves_louisa
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator, supporting the primary aged children’s strand in the UK.
Kulwinder Bola
- Researcher
- Bedford Borough Council & Bedfordshire, Luton, and Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group (B
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Professor Wendy Best
- Professor, researcher and supervisor
- UCL, UK
- Email: w.best@ucl.ac.uk
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Professor Julie Dockrell
- Professor of Psychology and Special Needs
- UCL, Institute of Education, UK
- Email: j.dockrell@ucl.ac.uk
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Dr Duana Quigley
- Practice Education Coordinator/Clinical Lecturer Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Email: quigled1@tcd.ie
- Twitter: @dawquigley
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Lana McCarthy
- Family and Community Strand leader
- Youngballymun, Republic of Ireland
- Email: lana@youngballymun.org
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator
Dr Helen Stringer
- Senior Lecturer and Consultant Speech and Language Therapist School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
- Email: helen.stringer@newcastle.ac.uk
- Twitter: @DrHelenSLT
- Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator