Dr Anna Volkmer is a senior speech and language therapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at University College London Hospital in the UK. Dr Volkmer is also a senior research fellow who specialises in developing and trialling interventions for people with primary progressive aphasia and their families. In her clinical academic role Dr Volkmer has set up the first specialist clinical service for PPA int he UK. She has been able to establish a hub and spoke model, where she works with a team to deliver therapy and support other speech and language therapists to do the same.

A/Prof Anne Vertigan is the manager of speech pathology for John Hunter Hospital and Belmont Hospital in Newcastle Australia, and Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle Australia. She graduated from Latrobe University in Melbourne with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Newcastle and a PhD through the University of Queensland. She is currently studying a combined Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Master of Medical Statistics. Anne’s clinical load includes acute inpatients, and outpatients voice disorders, chronic cough/VCD, laryngectomy and dysphagia. She is the speech pathologist in the Severe Asthma Clinic at John Hunter Hospital and chair of the Hunter New England Allied Health Research Network and the Hunter New England Research Ethics Committee. Research interests include voice disorders, chronic cough/VCD and voice & upper airway disorders in asthma. Anne has conducted several research projects in the area of chronic cough and PVFM and published the first text book on speech pathology management of these conditions.

Cristina Murphy is an Audiologist and Speech and Language Therapist specialising in Auditory Processing Disorder.  She has more than 20 years of experience working as a researcher and clinician in the field of APD. Cristina has accumulated a strong track record of publications with the world’s leading APD scientists and participated as a guest/keynote speaker in several international conferences/courses. Her work has focused on the intersection between auditory processing and language (including speech and reading skills), which is the result of her audiology and speech and language therapy backgrounds.

?Currently, she works as a Specialist Paediatric Audiologist in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and her private practice, THE APD CLINIC, in London. She is registered as a Clinical Audiologist with the RCCP (Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists). She is also a member of the BSA (British Society of Audiology) and BAA (British Academy of Audiology).

Dr Richard Talbot is a qualified speech and language therapist with experience in a variety of adult neurology settings. He has held clinical tutor and research posts at City, University of London, working on aphasia technology and discourse intervention projects.  His interests are the application of technology to aphasia rehabilitation, discourse, adults with language disorder, primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and bolstering links between research and clinical practice.

Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2021) and Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia (2015). She served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and has won Editors’ Awards from Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing: Speech (2018), American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2019), and Topics in Language Disorders (2020). She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales, a Board Certified Member of the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders, Chair of the Child Speech Committee of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), and served as Vice President of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association. She has co-authored 13 books and 230+ peer reviewed journal articles and chapters primarily focusing on children’s speech acquisition, speech sound disorders, and multilingualism. In 2019, she presented a speech about communication rights at the United Nations based on a special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology that has received over 200,000 downloads. The Australian Newspaper named her Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) and Best in the World based on the “quality, volume and impact” of research in the field (2019).

Victoria Joffe is Professor and Dean of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex. She was previously the Academic Director, International and Professor in the Enhancement of Child and Adolescent Language and Learning at City, University of London. 
Victoria’s area of expertise includes speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) in children and young people, the interface between education and speech and language therapy, training of teaching staff, language and literacy development, and EBP.
Victoria is editor of the journal, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, and acts as a speech and language therapy partner for the HCPC Council. She is chair of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ national clinical excellence network for older children and young adults with SLCN. Victoria is currently working on three NIHR-funded research projects looking into new and innovative interventions for children with social communication disorder, children who stammer and children with Down Syndrome