🏆 @RCSLTNI 80th Anniversary Co-design Award WINNER 🏆 Thank you for making it possible @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay Giving people with Parkinson’s a voice and allowing them to be equal, valued contributors in our research 💖

@UlsterHealthSci @ParkinsonsUK_NI @ParkinsonsEN @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow @ProfessorPlay @RCSLTNI @RCSLTResearch

🚨Research opportunity at home for people living with Parkinson's and partners 🚨 - with @UlsterHealthSci and @ParkinsonsUK_NI! Help us understand if and how Alexa could help with speech therapy 💬 Recruiting across Northern Ireland Email mills-j12@ulster.ac.uk / 02895365308

After months of campaigning, Parliament will be debating the @moversand6 #ParkyCharter and we need you to make sure your MP will be there. Join the 113,000 people who called for this and get your MP to the debate: https://t.co/PAXft9fKwl

Spend Friday joining @ParkinsonsUK’s Par-Con 2025! My three highlights: 2 Parkies in a Pod, hearing about the Tech Guide and seeing some winners of the Community Awards for 2025. Really emphasised to me the importance of holistic multi-disciplinary care in PD ✨

🚨 New PhD publication out! Our scoping review has been published in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/NPlJLdGcEL Thanks to PhD supervisors @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow @ProfessorPlay @UlsterHealthSci

Really wonderful, as a team, to be able to represent SLT research and clinical academics in speech and language therapy at the awards 🏆 @UlsterHealthSci

Well done to PhD student @Jodie23_SLT for winning the best Speech and Language abstract at this years AHP Research and Innovation Conference @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow

Fun day yesterday volunteering as a walk marshal for the Walk for Parkinson’s in Belfast with @ParkinsonsUK_NI! Love seeing people who had taken part in my PhD research, and encouraging everyone along the long route 💖

Thanks for @UlsterUni, and PhD supervisors @ktpedlow @OrlaDuffy11 and @ProfessorPlay for their support and involvement with this project 🏆

✨ Research and Innovation Conference 2025 Fantastic to give a platform presentation on co-designing a smart speaker tool for speech and voice difficulties, and receive an award from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy NI for best speech therapy abstract! (1/2)

@UlsterHealthSci @ParkinsonsUK_NI

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT 2🚨 The second paper from our focus groups, this time with speech and language therapists, has been published! 🗣️ Read the article: https://t.co/fABvHwdGmG Thanks to supervisors @OrlaDuffy11, @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay for their guidance!

🇲🇹 Currently having an amazing time at the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders Congress in Malta 🇲🇹 I’m grateful to have given two presentations on our PhD work on voice assisted technology and Parkinson’s and made connections 🗣️ @UlsterHealthSci

✨ Delighted to be giving a platform presentation on our co-design study from 11:00-11:15am✨ Show your support! Excited to see a local conference for allied health professions in both research AND practice at @UlsterHealthSci in Belfast on 12th Sept!

✨ Delighted that our team has had THREE abstracts accepted for the @RCSLT conference in Nov ✨ 1️⃣ Presentation: “Co-designing solutions to create a smart speaker tool for speech and voice difficulties for people living with Parkinson’s Disease.” 2️⃣+3️⃣ Posters #rcsltconf2025

📢If you're an SLT working in Northern Ireland, register for the Northern Ireland AHP Research & Innovation Conference 2025 'Transforming Care through Collaboration' 📅Friday 12 September 2025 ⏲️08:30-17:30 📍Belfast Campus, Ulster University 🎟️ https://t.co/BDn7txp56F @RCSLTNI

2️⃣ One of our collaborators summed it up: “The carer and patient are heard. So often in NHS setting they are the last ones to be heard y’know, what would they know. But here, they were put front and centre.” Collaboration underscores innovative healthcare @ParkinsonsUK_NI 💖

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✨Celebrate our nomination! ✨ Proud that @OrlaDuffy11 and I are nominated, for a Royal College of Speech Therapy award! @RCSLTNI Research should be about promoting and listening to the voices of our service users 🗣️ We’ve done that by working with @ParkinsonsUK (1/2)