Lecturer
School of Sport, Health and Wellbeing
01752 636700 Ext:4361
amallinson@marjon.ac.uk
I am a qualified speech and language therapist and academic and have been working as a part-time lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University since 2009. My clinical specialisms are communication and swallowing disorders associated with learning disabilities, mental health and stammering. My current teaching role broadly includes professional knowledge and skills (year 2), lifelong disabilities, mental illness, disorders of fluency & developmental eating and drinking disorders. I am professional tutor for Year 2 of the SLT programme supporting students on placement. Additionally, I support placement access for students with disabilities across all year groups.
Module leadership
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Modules on other programmes
Alex was nominated for the aCAREdemic Award at the University Student-Led Teaching Awards, 2018.
Areas of research interest include:
Mallinson, A and Parrott, L., (2019) Professional literacy development: A pilot project with undergraduate speech & language therapy students. International Assessment in Higher Education conference proceedings.
Hall, F., Mallinson, A., and Parrott, L., (2010) Using the interprofessional dysphagia framework in undergraduate teaching. Poster presented at UK Dysphagia Research conference, Feb 2010 and UCP Marjon Learning, Teaching and Research conference, March 2010.
Mallinson, A., (1999) Challenging the Classification of Rolandic Epilepsy as a Benign Disorder: Evidence from a Speech and Language Investigation. European Academy of Childhood Disability conference proceedings.
My clinical work as a highly specialist speech & language therapist has been predominately in the field of learning disabilities with a focus on adults.