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Thank you to Sophie Chalmers ( @SChalmersSLT ) for producing our first blog post of the year: We start the year by bringing you 'ResNetSLT Wednesdays', providing regular updates for research news you will definitely not want to miss. With a dedicated group of 23 members, we have exciting plans for 2018 with monthly 'Tweetchats' discussing a range of interesting papers related to implementing the evidence-base in clinical practice. Join the chat on Twitter on the last Wednesday of every month 7.30-8.30pm UK time. We'll be posting some questions in advance each month, with the link to the paper, plus a summary posted afterwards on our blog site. You can also keep up to date with our additional news blogs every second Wednesday of the month. And hopefully we'll start to see some comments being added in response – please feel free to join in. Have you made your New Year's Resolutions? Personally, I do not usually set myself New Year's resolutions however 20...

In August 2017 we published an invitation for volunteers to join us to form a new ResNetSLT Action Group. We were delighted with the response and now look forward to a very active year ahead in 2018 - the new team will help us to refresh the way we can provide relevant research resources, activities and advice. We will restart our monthly Twitter discussion forum (book your diary now for last Wednesday of every month 7.30pm – 8.30pm UK time). We'll post a regular summary of our Twitter chats here on the blogsite, so everyone can keep updated even if you're not (yet!) on Twitter. And in addition we have planned to have monthly features and news items on our blogsite (second Wednesday of the month). So please remember to start checking our blogsite more often – make it 'ResNetSLT Wednesday' – and let's start getting more interactive. Be one of the first post a comment on our pages to share your thoughts with us! And thanks are due to the RCSLT Research team for all th...

Did you notice the launch of our NEW Twitter profile @ResNetSLT on 10th October, 2017? We were thrilled to be invited to join @WeSpeechies for an exciting discussion hour on how Twitter has started to make an impact on our clinical practice. Thanks to @BronwynHemsley for leading that session, and thanks to @VJoffe and City University for welcoming us. Here's the link to the full transcript from the hour - packed with many discussion threads on what individuals have found helpful, difficult, frustrating, inspiring etc. Throughout 2018 we're looking forward to discussing a wide range of fascinating papers with everyone With thanks to our volunteers on the ResNetSLT Action Group for co-leading those sessions, we'll make sure all the papers are either already open access, or we'll post links from our supportive publisher contacts. We will publish the dates and papers on this site in due course. Of course over the past year, we've found that in these fast-paced Twee...

The ResNetSLT project will link up with @WeSpeechies on Tuesday, 10th October (10–11.00am UK time) to jointly host a Tweetchat. @HazelRoddam1 and @BronwynHemsley will team up to lead a discussion entitled: 'Using Twitter to help close the research-to-knowledge-to-practice gap in SLP/SLT worldwide'. Experienced SLP/SLT tweeters often report not being confident in using Twitter, or being 'the only one' in their department to embrace Twitter as a method of exchanging critical information. In the UK, the hashtag #ResNetSLT was launched to promote increased awareness and implementation of the research evidence-base by SLP/SLT practitioners. Through hosting themed discussions on applied clinical research papers, #ResNetSLT aims to support SLPs/SLTs to gain more confidence in understanding research design issues and the principles of evidence-based practice. The hashtag #WeSpeechies is used to focus on a specific topic for a week, involving a different curator each week. ...

We hosted our exciting second #ResNetSLT_Rendezvous 'Tweet Meet' during the RCSLT conference in Glasgow at the end of September. It was a very busy conference with over 500 delegates, and great to make lots of new connections by meeting up in front of our ResNetSLT poster. You can download a pdf of the full poster here . Look for all the comments on our own hashtag #ResNetSLT_Rendezvous – you can find these on Google search even if you're not on Twitter. This was the first chance to meet some of the members of our brand new ResNetSLT Action Group and we'll be posting more news about this very soon. We took the chance to interview @WeAHPs founder Dr Joanne Fillingham (see below) – thanks Jo for your great comments and advice to us all. We filmed these video clips in front of our #ResNetSLT poster and when you play the videos you'll hear the buzz of the RCSLT Conference all around us. You can find lots of highlights and research news by searching for the hashtag #R...

ResNetSLT is a unique online research community for SLTs at all stages of their career. We are launching a ResNetSLT Action Group in September 2017, to develop new initiatives for the future and to ensure sustainability. We'd like to hear from anyone who is interested to get involved in helping us. This could be brief news and commentary items for our blogsite or planning and running our Twitter chats ( #ResNetSLT ). Please spread the word that this is an exciting chance to get involved and to add to your CV. All expressions of interest are very welcome – and we would really love to have at least one student SLT or new graduate in our group. So if you would like to know more about joining us and can commit for one year, please contact Hazel Roddam by 31st August 2017.

Our monthly Twitter #ResNetSLT Journal Club which began in January 2016 has been a great success. Nine papers have been discussed during the year, with up to 47 participants being involved in the chats. Please click here for a summary of the papers discussed and the stats of the impact and reach to linked Twitter accounts. The highest to date was almost 750,000 accounts from a one hour Tweetchat. The engagement with our online Journal Club has shown that geography is no barrier, with people joining us from Australia as well as several countries in mainland Europe. We've also been delighted that people from many other professions have joined our discussions – and that's the message that everyone is welcome. On several occasions the paper authors have joined the discussions – a feature that we hope to continue next year. Each month we've either chosen an open access paper, or been able to negotiate with the relevant publishers for them to provide a direct link to our select...