Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Leeds Beckett University presents this Psycen seminar, Jane will focus on her journey supporting and guiding newly qualified and trainee speech and language therapists (SLT) in Ghana.
Jane’s talk will cover her stepping down from full time work as speech and language therapist specialising in head and neck cancer in the UK, to work as a volunteer at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra, Ghana’s capital.
Jane first became involved in offering her skills and expertise in Ghana in 2016 and launched the first fully accredited SLT training programme, (a two-calendar year MSc conversion), launched in the University of Ghana in September 2016.
Jane will focus on the work underway to draw up the profession’s codes of conduct within the Ghana Allied Health Professions’ Council. With her contribution already recognised with a Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Giving Voice Award (2018).
The Centre of Psychological Research (PsyCen), within School of Humanities and Social Sciences, supports research projects dedicated to improving psychological wellbeing for different communities in conjunction with a range of external collaborators and funders.
The centre’s work showcases diverse methodologies, from psychometric and experimental designs to qualitative and critical psychology approaches, to advance knowledge across different branches of psychological science, from social and community psychology to cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology.
Jane Dawson has taught SLT students, nurses, and other members of the MDT on the topic of Head and Neck Cancer at several universities as a visiting lecturer and organising and running courses at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where she worked for the past 10 years.
After qualifying as an SLT in 1987, Jane spent the majority of her career working with patients with head and neck cancer.
Jane has helped pioneer rehabilitation for laryngectomy patients, who had undergone surgical voice restoration. She co-authored “Working with Oral Cancer”, a practical handbook for SLTs (1995). Jane has contributed to chapters in the Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures and a chapter for the Head and Neck edition of Oxford University Press Palliative Care Consultation.
Jane was pleased to coordinate and develop the hospital’s Tracheostomy and Laryngectomy study days which have recently been opened to external participants.
