Professor Jois Stansfield

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Professor Jois Stansfield

Emeritus Professor

My profile

Biography

I was a registered speech and language therapist throughout my career and retired from Manchester Metropolitan University at the end of January 2017. I was awarded Emeritus status on retirement and, for the meticulous, I chose to adopt the title ‘emeritus’ as the better known term, rather than ‘emerita’, despite gendered differences in terminology. I maintain strong working relationships with colleagues in the Faculty of Health and Education.

My continuing research interests include ethical issues in research and practice; intellectual impairment; and speech and language therapy history. I recently completed an oral history project, which involved interviewing individuals who qualified as speech therapists between 1945 and 1970.  I am now investigating the history of British speech therapy in the twentieth century.

I have supervised a wide range of PhD projects in speech and language therapy, psychology, nursing and information technology

I am an active member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, contributing to the work of the Heritage Working Group and sourcing material to add to the RCSLT on-line archive. 

Academic and professional qualifications

Diploma and Licentiate of the College of Speech Therapists 1972

MSc, Human Communication, University of London 1978

EdD, University of Durham, 2001

MSc Health History, University of Strathclyde, 2019

Currently registered part time for a PhD in History 2021-

Other academic service (administration and management)

I mentor academic colleagues and those clinical colleagues who aspire to an academic career.

External examiner roles

PhD, EdD MRes and MSc by research external examining

Practioner roles

I held honorary clinical contracts with local NHS Trusts throughout my academic career, working with people with intellectual impairments.

Community, charity and NGO links

Until 2021 I  worked with CORU, the Republic of Ireland statutory health and care regulator on reviewing and approving degree programmes recognised by that body and acted as a vice chair of a local NHS Research Ethics Committee.

Academic panel member for the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists 2021-2

Simulated patient for nursing, physiotherapy and sports science degrees at Napier University 2017- 23.

PPI team member for MSc (pre-reg) on-line nursing degree at Napier University 2021-4.

I continue to act as evaluator for applicants for promoted and professorial posts.

Prizes and awards

Queens Anniversary Prize Award for Clinical Applications of Speech Science to Speech and Language Therapy. Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, Queen Margaret University College, 2003.

Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, 2010

Membership of professional associations

Registered speech and language therapist: Health and Care Professions Council (and predecessors) No: SL04539,  2001-23.

Registered Member; Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (and predecessors). No: 3147 1972 - date

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Projects

My current research is investigating the history of the speech and language therapy profession using the digital and paper archives of the RCSLT, wider archive material including that held by the Wellcome Collection, The National Archives, the National Library of Scotland and the National Records of Scotland.  This is being complemented by oral history testimonies I have also collected from SLTs qualifying before 1980 and from families and friends of early members of the profession.

Teaching

Why do I teach?

I no longer teach, but continue to contribute to seminars and workshops.  These enable me to enjoy seeing speech and language therapists, other professional colleagues and students as they progress through their careers.

Subject areas

Speech and language therapy; professional ethics; psychology; history

Supervision

Research outputs

Recent publications:

Armstrong, L. Stansfield, J. Bloch, S. (2017) Content analysis of the professional journal of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists III: into the 21st century, 1966-2015.  IJLCD 52:6, 681-688.

Guthrie S. Lancaster J. Stansfield J. (2017) Consensus-building on developing dysphagia competence.  A North West of England perspective.   IJLCD 52:6, 854-869

Guthrie S, Stansfield J (2017) Teatime threats.  Choking incidents at the evening meal.  JARID 30:1 47-60

Guthrie, S. Stansfield, J. (2020) Involving adults with intellectual disabilities in self-assessment of dysphagia using iPad® video. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities. DOI 10.1108/AMHID-04-2020-0007

Kiernan,J.  Mitchell, D. Stansfield J. Taylor C (2017) Mothers’ perspectives on the lived experience of children with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 20:10 1–15  

Stansfield, J. (2020) Giving voice.  An oral history of speech and language therapy.  IJLCD 55:3, 320-331

Stansfield, J. (2020) Reflections on being an insider.  Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and speech therapy.  Oral History Journal 48:2, 90-101

Stansfield, J. (2022) Talking points: oral histories of Australian and British speech-language pathologists who qualified in the three decades after 1945. IJS-LP (on-line)