BSLTRU Events
Upcoming events
Innovation in Action: Empowering SLTs in the South West Through Connection
Innovation in Action: Empowering SLTs in the South West Through Connection and Community, is set to relaunch the RCSLT's South West Hub by providing an exciting opportunity for SLTs, researchers, Therapy Assistants and students to come together to build connections and share knowledge, experiences and best practices.
Taking place on Friday, July 11 at the Taunton Conference Centre at Taunton College, the full-day event will begin with bit of networking over tea, coffee and biscuits before a mix of presentations and workshops - sandwiching a free buffet lunch - and numerous chances to network with your regional SLT colleagues.
The event is free to attend for RCSLT members based in the South West (please have your RCSLT membership number at hand when ordering your ticket) but please note that places are limited due to venue capacity. Extensive car parking is available on-site, with a daily charge of £1, while the venue is around a 15-minute walk from Taunton station.
For more information visit cmemailmarketing.co.uk
To secure your place visit Innovation in Action: Empowering SLTs in the South West Through Connection Tickets, Fri 11 Jul 2025 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
Past Events
BSLTRU and Underwood Trust Annual lecture
Title: All Children Should be Seen AND Heard: The Importance of Communication so Children can Thrive
We are happy to announce that this year’s BSLTRU and Underwood Trust Annual Lecture is taking place on Tuesday, 30th of April at 4 pm, in the Lecture Theatre in L&D Building at Southmead Hospital. Our guest speaker this year will be Professor Sharynne McLeod from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Professor McLeod, is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Society of New South Wales. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia and has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
RCSLT Conference 2023. Embracing the future together.
1-2 November 2023

The RCSLT is hosting their biannual conference online again this year on the 1-2 November. The conference promises "two days of opportunities for learning, professional development, and networking". Colleagues at BSLTRU and Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMU) will be presenting their research at this event.
The conference is exceptionally good value, making it very accessible. We are planning on extending this inclusive event by hosting opportunities to gather 'in-person' at Southmead (Weds 1st Nov) and Cardiff Llandaff campus (Thurs 2nd Nov). BSLTRU/CMU will make several rooms available over the 2 days so that colleagues registered to attend the conference can gather to watch and discuss parallel sessions. We hope this will provide an enhanced networking opportunity and give colleagues the chance to critically engage with the conference content.
For more information go to: www.rcslt.org/events/rcslt-conference-2023/section-1
If you are interested in joining us for the conference, please email dominika.kruszynska@nbt.nhs.uk to express your interest by 20th October 2023.
BSLTRU and Underwood Trust
BSLTRU and Underwood Trust were pleased to host our Annual Lecture on the 29th of June 2023 in the Lecture Theatre at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. Our guest speaker was Professor Janice Murray from Manchester Metropolitan University who presented on: “Clinical decision processes in augmentative and alternative communication: unpicking the elements that influence recommendations”.

Partnership with Cardiff Metropolitan University’s School of Sport and Health Sciences
BSLTRU is partnered with Cardiff Metropolitan University’s School of Sport and Health Sciences which trains speech and language therapists in the region. BSLTRU leads the Clinical Research Strand in the Speech, Hearing and Communication Research Group within the University.
To officially mark the occasion of this partnership, a launch event is took place on Wednesday 22 June 2022 at Cardiff School of Management.