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Thank you to Millie Heelan ( @heelan_phd ) for producing the latest ResNetSLT blog post. In October 2016 I took up an opportunity of a clinical doctoral research fellowship. This involves four years of funding to work two days a week as part of an adult acute SLT team and three days a week conducting a PhD study. Further information on conducting a clinical doctoral research fellowship can be found here . This opportunity has been a great learning curve to date, embracing the academic world, research methods and meeting an inspiring range of people interested in changing future practice for our patients. One thing that is very important when conducting a PhD, as well as in clinical practice, is keeping up to date and knowledgeable about research happening in your area. Here are a few ideas to remain current within your field: Get in touch with your trust library service. They are experts in creating the right search terms. They will help to successfully find publications to help answe

The first #ResNetSLT Tweetchat of 2018 took place on Wednesday, 31st January. The chat was based around the paper ' Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work? ' and was hosted by Sally Pratten ( @salpratten ) and Lucy Benjamin ( @lucybenjaminSLT ). The paper discusses the development of 'Communities of Practice' (CoPs) of healthcare practitioners, and how these work effectively. Two case studies of communities of practice were considered - one thriving and high achieving, and the other less successful. The pre-chat questions can be viewed here . The chat drew 37 participants from Gloucestershire, Bristol, London, Surrey and the North West of England. The hour sped by, with a very lively discussion of the highly topical chosen paper about CoP. The first and last questions seemed to elicit the most discussions - people seemed to be more engrossed in discussion during questions two and three and actually naturally seemed to move on to these without much