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Thank you to Hazel Roddam ( @HazelRoddam1 ) for producing the latest ResNetSLT blog post. Have you seen all our new international friends who've started joining us on #ReSNetSLT? It's been exciting to 'tweetmeet' with a growing number of new connections from across mainland Europe. A special warm welcome to Germany and Italy, who have been very active in joining our recent monthly Twitter journal club discussions. This is such a great opportunity for immediate real-time contact with colleagues with no barriers of geography, or professional discipline. I've just heard a new phrase today - 'connectography, not geography'. That seems so appropriate for us! Do you like it? Here's some news about a unique conference in September - watch the video clip to hear more. We're bringing together practitioners and academics in nursing, midwifery and health sciences from all around Europe to share inspiring examples of applied research to change practice. Please ...

The second ResNetSLT Tweetchat of 2018 took place on Wednesday, 28th February. The chat was hosted by Amy Hilton and Hazel Roddam and was based on this paper: ' Allied health research positions: a qualitative evaluation of their impact '. The findings in this research highlight the value of allied health profession (AHP) clinical research positions. Please click here to view to pre-chat overview and questions. We had 21 people actively tweeting and using our hashtag #ResNetSLT, with many others also watching and retweeting the conversations. There were 238 tweets in total during the hour, with a 'reach' to over 213,000 linked Twitter accounts. Thanks so much to Caroline Bowen  in Australia for saying 'hello' at the start of our chat. It was really exciting to hear comments from Germany and Italy, sharing their experiences from differing work settings. It seems that there are still only a small number of allied health research positions established in UK prac...

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 ...

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...