Dr Julia Stewart

Associate Dean of School (Allied Health Professions) & Associate Professor

School of Health & Wellbeing

01752 636700 Ext:5539

jstewart@marjon.ac.uk

Role Summary

As Associate Dean I support the Dean in managing all aspects of the School of Health & Wellbeing. I have a lead role for Allied Health Professions.

I lecture on the BSc Speech & Language Therapy programme in several key areas with a specific interest in developmental speech and language disorders and clinical education. As a professional tutor I support students' development through clinical placement experiences and also contribute to delivering training to placement educators.

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Qualifications

Doctor of Education in Education; University of Exeter
BA (Hons) Human Communication Studies; 1st class
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Health and Care Professions Council; and Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists registered SLT

Teaching

Developmental speech, language and communication disorders
Clinical linguistics and phonetics
Professional knowledge and skills
Clinical education

Research

The assessment of developmental language disorders
Student experience on clinical placement
Thesis: 'Speech and Language Therapists: Learning to be Placement Educators'
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Specific Language Impairment, Training, and Sure Start
Language delay in children living in areas of socio-economic deprivation
Use of reusable learning objects - linguistic analysis tool

Publications

Wisdom, F. Mallinson, A. & Stewart, J. (2020) Something to get our teeth into? Pre-registration dysphagia training at Plymouth Marjon University. RCSLT Bulletin.

Specialists in Specific Speech Impairment Network (2013) Good Practice Guidelines for the Transcription of Children's speech Samples. RCSLT Publications online.

Stewart, J. (2014) Role models as clinicians and educators. RCSLT Bulletin.

Stewart, J. (2013) Speech and language therapists learning to be clinical educators. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology 15, 2, 65-69.

Stewart, J (2002) Taking the service to the client. RCSLT Bulletin Journal.

Stewart J & Duckworth D (1998) Some Observations on Spoken and Shouted Speech. IPA conference paper.

2010 - organised local collection of standardization data for the Reynell Developmental Language Scales.

Expert Membership of professional bodies

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Health and Care Professions Council
Member of the British Association of Clinical Linguists
Member of Southwest Clinical Leads Group

Roles on external bodies

Co-founder of National Clinical Excellence Network in Clinical Education
Co-founder of the Southwestl Clinical Excellence Network for Children's Speech Disorders
External Examiner for PGDip Speech and Language Therapy at London City University
Member of the national Practice Education Lead group
Member of CREST - the national group for SLT Programme Leads
SNOWMED reviewer for Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists