Professor Lucy Dipper is a clinical linguist whose work explores the best ways to support communication in everyday life.
She works with the language needed for everyday communication, such as storytelling and other forms of discourse. This work requires analysis at various levels of language including word, phrase, sentence and discourse structure levels, and an understanding of non-verbal means of communication, such as gesture. Lucy’s research investigates the ways in which people communicate meaning in everyday life, including ideas, experiences, interests, beliefs, opinions and other aspects of identity; and the role of meaningful connection in supporting social and emotional wellbeing.
Lydia Davis is a Clinical Academic Speech and Language Therapist.
Her research interests include the communication experiences of older adults, particularly those living in care homes, and how these can impact social interaction, relationships and wellbeing. Lydia also works within the placement expansion team at The Roberta Williams Speech and Language Therapy Centre • City, University of London developing novel clinical placement models for student speech and language therapists with a focus on healthcare settings for older adults.
Dr Becky Moss is a clinical linguist and social scientist working in the fields of health and social care communication and Patient and Public Involvement.
She uses qualitative research methods such as focus groups, in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation to enrich and illuminate quantitative data from large scale intervention studies including randomised controlled trials. Her fields of healthcare expertise include stroke and aphasia, neonatal care and prematurity and quality of life. Becky also investigates whether language and communication styles used in clinical consultations and at the bedside can influence participation in interventions and impact an intervention’s retention rate.
Professor Madeline Cruice is a speech and language therapist clinical 
researcher whose core research interests lie in understanding the relationships between communication impairment, activity and participation with wellbeing and quality of life in individuals who live with aphasia, so that speech and language therapy intervention is best targeted for maximum effect. Her current work explores discourse (storytelling) and conversation interventions for people with aphasia and their families, as well as support for stroke patients with aphasia and their families whilst in rehabilitation.
Professor Nicola Botting is a developmental psychologist with an interest in communication across the lifespan.
Her research interests include storytelling, language difficulties, autism and other developmental disorders. She is particularly interested in the interface between verbal and non-verbal skills, functional communication and lifestyle, and the overlap between disorders.
