Dr Martina Curtin is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), the Clinical Lead for deaf children and young people, and a Clinical Research Fellow at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and at City, University of London.
Martina teaches about working with deaf children and their families on SLT courses at City and Greenwich Universities, and on the QToD course at Birmingham University. Martina leads the AHP Research Network at Homerton Healthcare NHS and runs a National Deaf Journal Club (hosted by the Scottish Sensory Centre).
Following her NIHR funded MRes in Clinical Research (2016-2018), Martina won a HEE Bridging Fund (2018-2019) which enabled her to win an NIHR-funded Clinical Doctorate Research Fellowship (2020-2024). Martina’s doctorate developed the content and process of the EPID tool.
In addition, Martina is an RCSLT Research Champion, a committee organiser of RCSLT Research Champions Day (2020; 2022), a peer reviewer of the RCSLT Professional Magazine, the RCSLT Conference, and academic journals Plos One, First Language, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, and Deaf Education International. She is a Clinical Academic Mentor for four early-stage SLTs. Martina delivers presentations and key note presentations nationally and internationally.
In 2024, Martina began the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and won a grant (NIHR Pre Application Fund). Both of these opportunities will assist her in developing the EPID further.