Dr Gemma Clunie
@gemmaclunie.bsky.social
Lead Clinical Academic for AHPs. SLT. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Imperial College. Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC) #NIHR #Research #SCPRAFellow #Mum
#Voice #Swallow #Ultrasound #AirwayStenosis #HNC #BookSky #BSkySpeechies
#Voice #Swallow #Ultrasound #AirwayStenosis #HNC #BookSky #BSkySpeechies
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I’ve recently started a YouTube channel and hope to share some clinically useful videos, focused on Speech Sound Disorders and CAS.
My first video is a walkthrough of the DEAP, how to use the summary screen and the various subtests. Please share!
youtu.be/iUokSZm99vc?...
My first video is a walkthrough of the DEAP, how to use the summary screen and the various subtests. Please share!
youtu.be/iUokSZm99vc?...
How to conduct a Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP) - UK version.
YouTube video by Lorraine Bamblett Speech and Language Therapy
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I’ve recently started a YouTube channel and hope to share some clinically useful videos, focused on Speech Sound Disorders and CAS.
My first video is a walkthrough of the DEAP, how to use the summary screen and the various subtests. Please share!
youtu.be/iUokSZm99vc?...
My first video is a walkthrough of the DEAP, how to use the summary screen and the various subtests. Please share!
youtu.be/iUokSZm99vc?...
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Hearing it was a great day at the NWL Research Symposium today 👏👏👏Congratulations to Gavi Simson who presented her work on dysphagia related PROMS for people with Laryngectomy. Gavi was joined by service user @imperialbrc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @gemmaclunie.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hearing it was a great day at the NWL Research Symposium today 👏👏👏Congratulations to Gavi Simson who presented her work on dysphagia related PROMS for people with Laryngectomy. Gavi was joined by service user @imperialbrc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @gemmaclunie.bsky.social
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Clinical Research Fellow Vacancy, London. Supervised by Professor Paul Edison at Imperial Memory Research Centre, focusing on neuroimaging and dementia research including Alzheimer’s disease. Closing date: 27th October
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...
Clinical Research Fellow - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Clinical Research Fellow, London. Work with Professor Paul Edison at Imperial on dementia and Alzheimer’s research using PET, MRI, and CSF imaging.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Clinical Research Fellow Vacancy, London. Supervised by Professor Paul Edison at Imperial Memory Research Centre, focusing on neuroimaging and dementia research including Alzheimer’s disease. Closing date: 27th October
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/clinical...
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SLT students at Essex Uni are looking to interview SLTs and SLTAs with experience of using gesture in aphasia therapy in acute settings- please get in touch with Maddy and Laura if you’re interested. @basaphasia.bsky.social @susieslt.bsky.social @aphasiatherapycen.bsky.social @abracabadger.com
MSc SLT students at @universityofessex.bsky.social are researching gesture for aphasia therapy in acute stroke care. If you’re an SLT, SLTA or Rehabilitation Assistant with experience, we’d love to hear from you! lr19377@essex.ac.uk / mh24873@essex.ac.uk #Aphasia #StrokeRehab #SLT #SpeechTherapy
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
SLT students at Essex Uni are looking to interview SLTs and SLTAs with experience of using gesture in aphasia therapy in acute settings- please get in touch with Maddy and Laura if you’re interested. @basaphasia.bsky.social @susieslt.bsky.social @aphasiatherapycen.bsky.social @abracabadger.com
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Attending many great talks at #ESSD2025 in Athens, and a great opportunity to present our work on using the compartmental tongue theory to reshape how we quantify tongue movement in swallowing.
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Attending many great talks at #ESSD2025 in Athens, and a great opportunity to present our work on using the compartmental tongue theory to reshape how we quantify tongue movement in swallowing.
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The Francis Crick Institute, London. Seeks early career group leaders in biology or biomedicine to start labs with funding, training and collaborations.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/earl...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/earl...
Early career group leaders - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
The Francis Crick Institute, London. Seeks early career group leaders in biology or biomedicine to start labs with funding, training and collaborations.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Francis Crick Institute, London. Seeks early career group leaders in biology or biomedicine to start labs with funding, training and collaborations.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/earl...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/earl...
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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🚨 New Podcast alert!
Public misunderstanding & impact on care with @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
✅The episode explores public misunderstanding of terminology around death, dying & Advance Care Planning
🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis...
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#AdvanceCarePlanning
Public misunderstanding & impact on care with @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
✅The episode explores public misunderstanding of terminology around death, dying & Advance Care Planning
🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis...
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#AdvanceCarePlanning
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
🚨 New Podcast alert!
Public misunderstanding & impact on care with @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
✅The episode explores public misunderstanding of terminology around death, dying & Advance Care Planning
🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis...
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#AdvanceCarePlanning
Public misunderstanding & impact on care with @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
✅The episode explores public misunderstanding of terminology around death, dying & Advance Care Planning
🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis...
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social
#AdvanceCarePlanning
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“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”
Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
October 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”
Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Very proud to see brilliant SLT Researcher @samburrslt.bsky.social mentioned not once but twice in this list of awards. Congratulation Sam!
So excited to be able to progress this important work in collaboration with inspirational and passionate families, clinicians and researchers 🤩
We are excited to announce that the PROSPER study has been awarded funding via the Health and Care Research Wales Advanced Fellowship
Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social leads this vital work to improve speech outcomes for VP-born children in Wales
healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/h...
Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social leads this vital work to improve speech outcomes for VP-born children in Wales
healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/h...
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Very proud to see brilliant SLT Researcher @samburrslt.bsky.social mentioned not once but twice in this list of awards. Congratulation Sam!
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The attack on the Manchester Jewish community is devastating.
No ifs, ands or buts.
People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty.
Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.
No ifs, ands or buts.
People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty.
Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.
October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The attack on the Manchester Jewish community is devastating.
No ifs, ands or buts.
People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty.
Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.
No ifs, ands or buts.
People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty.
Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
If any #bskyspeechies can help gather research data (via online focus group)on this under-researched area, please email me: 230750@aecc.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Read about Research Capacity in SLT/P a great study led by brilliant SLT @katiedooslt.bsky.social using behaviour change models (TDF & COM-B) to make sense of it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Use of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation‐Behaviour Model and Theoretical Domains Framework to Understand Barriers and Enablers of Research Capacity and Culture for Speech and Language Therapy Staff
Background Research Capacity and Culture (RCC) is important for research engagement. Little is known of what speech and language therapy staff perceives to be the barriers or enablers to this at ind...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Read about Research Capacity in SLT/P a great study led by brilliant SLT @katiedooslt.bsky.social using behaviour change models (TDF & COM-B) to make sense of it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thank you to the amazing working group who put these documents together including @gemmaclunie.bsky.social @jodiallenslt.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thank you to the amazing working group who put these documents together including @gemmaclunie.bsky.social @jodiallenslt.bsky.social
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First post on #bsky and I'm happy to share this 'bonus' workstream from my #nihr funded PhD. A privilege to work with my co-authors who helped make this happen
#tracheostomy #ultrasound #artefact @ucl.ac.uk @royalfreecharity.org
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
#tracheostomy #ultrasound #artefact @ucl.ac.uk @royalfreecharity.org
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
The challenges of using ultrasound to measure the trachea: a brief report
link.springer.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
First post on #bsky and I'm happy to share this 'bonus' workstream from my #nihr funded PhD. A privilege to work with my co-authors who helped make this happen
#tracheostomy #ultrasound #artefact @ucl.ac.uk @royalfreecharity.org
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
#tracheostomy #ultrasound #artefact @ucl.ac.uk @royalfreecharity.org
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
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Grateful to be interviewed by Sara Tavares, Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, clinical academic colleague about my path into advocacy for people after stroke #lifeafterstroke @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social @gemmaclunie.bsky.social @ismalias.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advan...
academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advan...
Advocacy Spotlight Series : Jennifer Crow
Sara Tavares, Jennifer Crow; Advocacy Spotlight Series : Jennifer Crow, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, , zvaf093, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurj
academic.oup.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Grateful to be interviewed by Sara Tavares, Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, clinical academic colleague about my path into advocacy for people after stroke #lifeafterstroke @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social @gemmaclunie.bsky.social @ismalias.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advan...
academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advan...
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Glossogram with dark red indicating constriction and blue diagonal (tongue compartment contracted) demonstrating peristaltic transfer of water bolus from oral-pharyngeal. This is easiest to explain as sequential extension of neuromuscular compartments of the tongue.
May 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Glossogram with dark red indicating constriction and blue diagonal (tongue compartment contracted) demonstrating peristaltic transfer of water bolus from oral-pharyngeal. This is easiest to explain as sequential extension of neuromuscular compartments of the tongue.
I wrote a blog! (First time for everything in life)
communities.springernature.com/posts/use-of...
@jodiallenslt.bsky.social @drcoffey.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
communities.springernature.com/posts/use-of...
@jodiallenslt.bsky.social @drcoffey.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Use of ultrasound to assess muscle structure and size in key speech and swallowing tissues before and after radiotherapy
communities.springernature.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I wrote a blog! (First time for everything in life)
communities.springernature.com/posts/use-of...
@jodiallenslt.bsky.social @drcoffey.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
communities.springernature.com/posts/use-of...
@jodiallenslt.bsky.social @drcoffey.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
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Grateful for the chance to attend @ESPO_PedENT #Stuttgart for all things #paediatric #ENT last week.
Special thanks to @RCSLT for a grant to support attendance to share some research outputs - more on that later.
🚨Get ready: a few highlights #mysltday #clinicalacademic 👇🏻🧵1/
Special thanks to @RCSLT for a grant to support attendance to share some research outputs - more on that later.
🚨Get ready: a few highlights #mysltday #clinicalacademic 👇🏻🧵1/
May 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Grateful for the chance to attend @ESPO_PedENT #Stuttgart for all things #paediatric #ENT last week.
Special thanks to @RCSLT for a grant to support attendance to share some research outputs - more on that later.
🚨Get ready: a few highlights #mysltday #clinicalacademic 👇🏻🧵1/
Special thanks to @RCSLT for a grant to support attendance to share some research outputs - more on that later.
🚨Get ready: a few highlights #mysltday #clinicalacademic 👇🏻🧵1/
New paper alert! A Core Outcome Set for intervention studies in Airway Stenosis.
Thanks @imperialbrc.bsky.social for infrastructure support & @nihr.bsky.social for funding
@imperialmed.bsky.social @drjustinroe.bsky.social @amyfreeman.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lary...
Thanks @imperialbrc.bsky.social for infrastructure support & @nihr.bsky.social for funding
@imperialmed.bsky.social @drjustinroe.bsky.social @amyfreeman.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lary...
Development of a Core Outcome Set for Intervention Studies in Adults With Laryngotracheal Stenosis
We used a rigorous two round Delphi process informed by multiple stakeholder groups to gain consensus on seven core outcomes for inclusion in future research relating to adults with laryngotracheal s...
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New paper alert! A Core Outcome Set for intervention studies in Airway Stenosis.
Thanks @imperialbrc.bsky.social for infrastructure support & @nihr.bsky.social for funding
@imperialmed.bsky.social @drjustinroe.bsky.social @amyfreeman.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lary...
Thanks @imperialbrc.bsky.social for infrastructure support & @nihr.bsky.social for funding
@imperialmed.bsky.social @drjustinroe.bsky.social @amyfreeman.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lary...
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The four key actions:
1. Guarantee open and free science by law
2. Founding: Allocate €500 million (2025–2027) to attract global researchers + aim for 3% of GDP invested in R&D by 2030
3. Shorten the path from science to startup
4. Make it easier for scientists to relocate to Europe
🧵2/3
1. Guarantee open and free science by law
2. Founding: Allocate €500 million (2025–2027) to attract global researchers + aim for 3% of GDP invested in R&D by 2030
3. Shorten the path from science to startup
4. Make it easier for scientists to relocate to Europe
🧵2/3
May 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The four key actions:
1. Guarantee open and free science by law
2. Founding: Allocate €500 million (2025–2027) to attract global researchers + aim for 3% of GDP invested in R&D by 2030
3. Shorten the path from science to startup
4. Make it easier for scientists to relocate to Europe
🧵2/3
1. Guarantee open and free science by law
2. Founding: Allocate €500 million (2025–2027) to attract global researchers + aim for 3% of GDP invested in R&D by 2030
3. Shorten the path from science to startup
4. Make it easier for scientists to relocate to Europe
🧵2/3
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On International Day of the Midwife we celebrate the critical role of midwives in providing expert, compassionate care for mothers, babies and families in every situation, everywhere, every minute of every day 👏👏👏
May 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
On International Day of the Midwife we celebrate the critical role of midwives in providing expert, compassionate care for mothers, babies and families in every situation, everywhere, every minute of every day 👏👏👏
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🎉 Happy #May4thBeWithYou and #AirwayStenosis Awareness Day everyone.
🚨 To mark it, here's the great #GVTwitterTakeover @gemmaclunie.bsky.social did for RCSLT.
▶️ Check it out: wakelet.com/wake/WT6iNef...
🚨 To mark it, here's the great #GVTwitterTakeover @gemmaclunie.bsky.social did for RCSLT.
▶️ Check it out: wakelet.com/wake/WT6iNef...
May 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🎉 Happy #May4thBeWithYou and #AirwayStenosis Awareness Day everyone.
🚨 To mark it, here's the great #GVTwitterTakeover @gemmaclunie.bsky.social did for RCSLT.
▶️ Check it out: wakelet.com/wake/WT6iNef...
🚨 To mark it, here's the great #GVTwitterTakeover @gemmaclunie.bsky.social did for RCSLT.
▶️ Check it out: wakelet.com/wake/WT6iNef...