Gillian Rudd

Gillian is actively involved in raising awareness of speech, language and communication needs and the potential that speech and language therapy has to transform lives. Recently she led a campaign to raise awareness of the Bercow: Ten Years On report and her petition asking Government to implement its recommendations achieved over 11,000 signatures and was discussed in a Westminster Hall debate on 4 July 2018.

• Stammering and cluttering (disorders of fluency)
• Policy development and implementation, particularly in relation to Special Educational Needs provision for children with speech, language and communication needs and the Bercow: Ten Years On report
• Professional practice (including effective use of social media)

• MEd (with commendation) – Academic Practice in Higher Education from Birmingham City University (2017)
• BSc (Hons) Speech Pathology and Therapy from Manchester Metropolitan University (2005)

• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Member of the National Clinical Excellence Network (CEN) in Disorders of Fluency (serving on the committee since 2012, most recently as SIGNAL Editor)
• Trustee of the British Stammering Association (STAMMA)

• BSc Speech and Language Therapy

• MSc Speech and Language Therapy

• Return to Practice – Speech and Language Therapy

Supporting author for the RCSLT (2017) CQ Live guidance on ‘Communications technology’ and ‘Risk management’. Available at: www.rcslt.org [Accessed 04 December 2018]

Peer reviewer for the RCSLT (2017) CQ Live guidance on ‘Safeguarding and speech and language therapy’. Available at: www.rcslt.org [Accessed 04 December 2018]

Rudd, G. and Taylor-Goh, S. (2017) 'Investigating clinical reasoning in first year speech and language therapy students using thinking-aloud'. RCSLT Conference: Speech and Language Therapy - Maximising impact. (Poster presentation). Glasgow, UK, 27-28 September 2017.

Jenkins, H. and Rudd, G. (2015) 'Enhancing the employability of BCU speech and language therapy students in working with people who stammer: a University and NHS collaboration'. Safer Care Conference. Birmingham, UK, 25 June 2015.

Rudd, G. and Jenkins, H. (2014) 'Enhancing Student Employability: The Camperdown Program. RCSLT Conference: Mind the Gap: Putting research into practice'. (Poster presentation). Leeds, UK, 17-18 September 2014

• https://twitter.com/gillianrudd