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Dr Suzanne Beeke

I trained as a speech and language therapist (BA Hons, Reading University, UK) qualifying in 1993. After graduating I took a part time research assistant role on an aphasia project at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh where I caught the research bug. During my 3 years in Edinburgh I also worked in adult neuro at the Western General Hospital and supported student speech and language therapists at QMU. I then moved to UCL, taking up a research post on one of the first externally-funded projects in the UK to use conversation analysis (CA) to explore the impact of acute-onset aphasia on individuals' everyday conversations with family members, led by Professor Ray Wilkinson and Emerita Professor Jane Maxim. I continued to work my way up as a researcher and completed my PhD in 2005 (Rethinking agrammatism: using conversation analysis to investigate the talk of individuals with aphasia). After an ESRC/MRC funded post-doctoral fellowship I became a lecturer and then the first head of department of the newly formed Department of Language and Cognition from 2008-2013. I also secured Stroke Association funding for what became Better Conversations with Aphasia, a communication partner training intervention based on my PhD and post-doc work. I am now an Associate Professor and Programme Director of the MSc in Speech and Language Therapy.

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UCL Communication Clinic for people with aphasia and families
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