
Dr Wendy Cohen
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Speech and Language Therapy
Area of Expertise
- Speech disorders in children and adolescents
- Voice disorders in children and adolescents
- Communication disability in those with an associated genetic condition
- Clinical Education and Professional Development
Qualifications
I currently hold several areas of responsibility within the University and externally:
University responsibilities:
- Head of the Graduate School
- Associate Dean PGR
- School of Psychological Sciences and Health Ethics Committee
- University Quality Assurance Contact for Health and Care Professions Council
- Professional Lead in Speech and Language Therapy (2016 - 2021)
- Mentor STEP SFHEA Support Network (2017)
- University Personal Development Planning Network (until 2016)
- Responsible for leading negotiation of PPA for 8/10 health boards as listed above on behalf of SLT and NCPO programmes (until 2016)
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Study member (2013 - 2016)
External and Professional responsibilities
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (9502)
- Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (SL02551)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PR119602)
- Health and Care Professions Council Fitness to Practice Panel Member (2022 - current)
- RCSLT Committee of Representatives of Education in Speech and Language Therapy (CREST) (2016 - 2021)
- Secretary to CREST (2017 - 2018)
- Chair of CREST (2018 - 2021)
- Maxwell Bequest Committee (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) (2017 - 2022)
- West of Scotland NHS Research Ethics Committee Member/ Vice Chair (WESROC4) (2017 - current)
Publications
Research Interests
My research interests are aligned to University’s health and wellbeing strategy in the area of speech, language, voice and communication.
Recent projects focused on developing tools for evaluating voice difficulties in children.
My longest standing interests relate to a national collaboration investigating the genetic factors associated with language and communication difficulties. My involvement in this (the SLI consortium) dates back to the design, collection and analysis of genetic and language performance data from a Scottish family cohort study. The SLI Consortium brought together key personnel from a series of cohort studies to increase the statistical strength of the data. I led the design of the language assessment protocol and data gathering for the Scottish cohort. The data continues to be analysed as genetic analysis techniques are refined. This is resulting in current collaborative publications which are attributed to key named authors and all members of the SLI Consortium who had principle involvement in the data gathering and early analysis.
Professional Activities
Projects
Contact
Dr
Wendy
Cohen
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Speech and Language Therapy
Email: wendy.cohen@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3793