Dee Webster is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and currently working for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in community stroke rehabilitation where she also coordinates the Conversation Partners scheme for people with aphasia. She has extensive experience in working with people with acquired communication and swallowing disorders in a variety of clinical settings. She has a strong commitment to evidence-based practice, has written for peer-reviewed publication and is a Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists’ Research Champion.

She combines her clinical post with an academic role at the University of Sheffield where she works as a University Teacher. Her teaching expertise focuses on acquired disorders and clinical education for undergraduate and postgraduate students and clinicians. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

As an experienced educator and clinician, Dee will use a blended learning approach to engage health and social care professionals. Participants will be invited to reflect on their current perspectives, skills and knowledge and apply new learning and evidence-based techniques to their individual working practices in order to facilitate inclusive, well-supported and accessible conversations with people with aphasia.