Katherine Buckeridge

Katherine joined the Centre for Health Service (CHSS) at the University of Kent in September 2019 on a part-time PhD scholarship. She works part-time clinically in the South East of England as a specialist speech and language therapist with children and young people who have acquired brain injuries and complex neuro disability. She also provides supervision for therapists who work in this field.

Katherine holds a post one day per week as a Clinical Researcher with The Children’s Trust, a charity for children with brain injury and neuro disability. Her PhD research aims to develop a communication outcome measure for the communication of non-verbal children with neuro disability using the views of parents and children.

Katherine worked as a Commercial Property Insurance underwriter for nine years before becoming a Speech and Language Therapist. She completed a Clinical Language Sciences (Speech and Language Therapy) degree at Leeds Metropolitan University in 1999. Until 2019, she worked in the NHS for Sussex Community NHS Trust at Chailey Clinical Services, specialising in working with children and young people with complex neuro disability.

In 2016, she completed a Clinical Research Masters (MRes) with the University of Brighton. Her research project explored adolescents’ experiences of communication following acquired brain injury using a qualitative methodology of interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). This study was subsequently published in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (IJLCD).