Dr Richard Body BA, PhD, MRCSLT

Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK


Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2415
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : r.body@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the department in June 2001 after 18 years working as a speech and language therapist in London, Cardiff and Sheffield. Prior to specialising in the field of traumatic brain injury I had clinical experience of working with adults in the areas of voice, fluency and acquired neurological disorders. My specialism in traumatic brain injury was developed through working for twelve years at the Head Injury Rehabilitation Centre in Sheffield and a further three with the Community Brain Injury Service (also in Sheffield). Between 1989 and 1992 I was Head of the Speech and Language Therapy Department at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.

Professional activities

Invited talks

• In the presence of other lives: ethics and speech and language therapy. Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Student Conference, Manchester, 2007.
• Ethics: the stuff that keeps you awake at night. Ethics and Brain Injury Conference, Sheffield, 2006.
• Assessment of communication after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference, Newcastle, 2004.
• Sociopathy and somatic markers: communication in traumatic brain injury as social decision making. Disordered communicative interaction: current and future approaches to analysis and treatment. Colloquium, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2004.

Research interests

• Cognitive-linguistic assessment in traumatic brain injury
• Conversation ability in traumatic brain injury
• Clinical ethics in speech and language therapy

Current projects

• Rapid Naming and Information Processing after Traumatic Brain Injury, with Mark Parker (Sheffield West PCT), Camilla Herbert (Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust).
• Ethics in Speech and Language Therapy (book). Lindy McAllister (Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Collaborators

• Mark Parker, Sheffield Primary Care Trust.
• Camilla Herbert, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust.
• Lindy McAllister, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
  

Key publications

1. Body, R. (2007) Somatic markers and decision making in conversation after traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology, 21, 394-408.
2. Body, R. & Perkins, M. (2006) Terminology and methodology in the assessment of cognitive-linguistic disorders. Brain Impairment, 7, 212-222.
3. Body, R. & Parker, M. (2005) Topic repetitiveness after traumatic brain injury: an emergent, jointly managed behaviour. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 19, 379-392.
4. Body, R. & Perkins, M. (2004) Validation of linguistic analyses in narrative discourse after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 18, 707-724.

25 January 2012