Senior Lecturer
School of Sport, Health and Wellbeing
01752 636700 Ext:7088
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, stamnmering & 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 & teaching
In addition, I currently teach on the following modules;
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
I have been nominated for a range of staff awards including Lecturer of the Year, aCAREdemic and awards for Humanity, Ambition & Innovation, most recently in 2022.
I am currently a postgraduate researcher at the University of Exeter studying for a PhD in Education. My research focuses on feedback experiences of pre-registration students.
Areas of research interest include:
Mallinson, A.L., Parrott, L., Pettit, E., Stewart, J. & Callard, J.F. (2022). Making it happen with multiple stakeholders; effective knowledge exchange for placement-based learning. [Verbal presentation at ‘Knowledge Exchange in Higher Education: implications for teaching and research’ conference at Plymouth Marjon University, 01/04/22.]
Mallinson, A.L. & Wisdom, F.O. (2022). Learning with and from each other: A cross-university approach to student-led knowledge exchange. [Poster presentation at ‘Knowledge Exchange in Higher Education: implications for teaching and research’ conference at Plymouth Marjon University, 01/04/22]
Parrott, L., Pettit, E., Mallinson, A., Knox, P., Bates, S., and Callard, J. (2021). How was it for you? University practice educators’ reflections on delivering a creative clinical placement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 23 (3). pp. 24-29.
Mallinson, A and Parrott, L., (2019) Professional literacy development: A pilot project with undergraduate speech & language therapy students. [Verbal presentation] 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 Swallow Research Group 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.