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Thank you to Katie Chadd ( @Katie_Chadd ) for producing the latest ResNetSLT blog post. The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists have an established network of SLTs who are committed to striving "to ensure that speech and language therapy is an evidence-based, research-active profession, bringing together research and clinical practice" which is achieved by working in partnership with the RCSLT and wider research networks. The network celebrated its increase in strength and numbers (now 273 SLTs) and the remarkable achievements of our therapists at a workshop held in London in July. Two core aims of the day were to provide therapists with the opportunity to: Share good practice initiatives to support evidence based practice Develop contacts within the network to support research and development work The format of the day varied and we incorporated presentations, a panel session, group activities, invited guest speakers, lightning talks, a poster exhibition, and pr

The sixth #ResNetSLT Tweetchat of 2018 took place on Wednesday, 27th June. The chat was hosted by Sophie Chalmers ( @SChalmersSLT ) and Chiara Vivaldi ( @VivaldiC ) and was based around this paper: ' Using Twitter for education: Beneficial or simply a waste of time? ' Please click here to view the pre-chat overview and questions. We had 24 people actively tweeting and using our hashtag #ResNetSLT , with many others also watching and retweeting the conversations. There were 190 tweets in total during the hour, with a 'reach' to over 139,817 linked Twitter accounts. It was fantastic to see people interacting in the conversation from across the globe! The debate included students, educators, supervisors, university lecturers and clinicians - the one thing everyone agreed on was that no matter the stage of your career, Twitter is great for accessing information, resources and networking across specialisms and geographies. We had great examples of students actively network