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Staff Profile

Sarah Barnett

Lecturer in Speech & Language Sciences

  • Telephone: 0191 208 5250
  • Address: Room 1.01
    King George VI Building
    Queen Victoria Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Summary

I qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 2017 from Newcastle University. During my final year I completed a Research Scholarship, a dissertation project, and worked as a research associate looking into behaviour change in Speech and Language Therapy with Dr Helen Stringer. During this time I also successfully applied for a 1+3 PhD Scholarship, receiving funding from the ESRC. During the first year of my Masters and PhD I worked with Northumbria Healthcare in both community paediatrics and early years. My PhD project considered behaviour change processes in parent-child interaction interventions.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Peer Mentoring Coordinator for Undergraduate students
  • Personal Tutor

Qualifications

  • PhD Speech and Language Sciences – November 2022, Newcastle University
  • MSc Clinical Linguistics and Evidence-Based Practice – Degree with Distinction 2018, Newcastle University
  • BSc Speech and Language Sciences – First Class Honours 2017 Newcastle University

Memberships

  • Registered Member of the Health and Care Professions Council | Registration number SL35553
  • Registered Member Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Research

Research Interests

  • Early language development
  • Parent-child interaction
  • Early speech and language interventions
  • Behaviour change in speech and language therapy
  • The nature of developmental language disorder
  • Bilingualism provision across the UK in Speech and Language departments
  • Speech and language therapy student learning

Profiles

  • ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah-Barnett-8
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-5715-150X

Projects

  • 2022/23 Building the case for a dedicated bilingualism pathway in a UK paediatric speech and language therapy department

Funding

  • 2022/23 £500 Early Career Researcher Support Fund Newcastle University
Teaching

Undergraduate

  • SPE1057 / EDU2011 Child Development and Speech & Language Acquisition (Module Leader)
  • SPE2051 Clinical and Professional Education (Practice Educator in Children's Speech and Language Clinic)
  • SPE2052 Linguistics and Phonetics II (Contributor Bilingualism)

Postgraduate (taught)

  • SPE8154 Child Development and Speech & Language Acquisition (Module Leader)
  • SPE8288 Research in Clinical Practice (Extended Case Supervisor)
  • SPE8152 Speech and Language Pathology: Cases (Contributor Preschool Case, School-Age Case)
  • SPE8155 Linguistics (Contributor Bilingualism)
Publications