Dr Jane Bickford
Senior Lecturer
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Jane is a passionate educator, early career researcher and certified practising speech pathologist. She teaches in the Bachelor and Master of Speech Pathology programs and is currently the Academic Lead for the Speech Pathology Teaching Section. Jane has worked in a range of clinical and community settings, with diverse populations in both Australia and the UK. Her academic and research interests include multidisciplinary team effectiveness, voice and voice disorders, the effects of detrimental change to communicative competence to self-identity and social participation, therapeutic communication skill development, 'consumer voice' in complex health care delivery and research, functional outcomes after head and neck cancer, impacts of social determinants of health on communication outcomes and the experience of transition (in education and healthcare). She is also a clinical educator and has run the voice screening clinic and routinely leads voice care training workshops. Jane has expertise in qualitative methodology but also supports mixed methods projects.
Jane has also worked as Course Coordinator for the Master of Speech Pathology and Director of First Year Studies for the School of Health Sciences, eLearning Theme Leader for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Jane's clinical experience inspired her to pursue her PhD. Her project focused on the experience of living with and supporting individuals with total laryngectomy. She received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Jane has supervised a number of research projects, including examining effective treatments for head and neck lympheodema; national survey of communicative competence after laryngectomy; preventing occupational voice problems experienced by university sector frontline service providers, the knowledge and utility of the ICF-Framework by practising speech pathologists and speech pathology students in Australia.
PhD
BAppSc (Speech Pathology)
Foundation Cert (Psychotherapy and Counselling)
Awards:
Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - 2016
Vice President Executive Dean's Education Award - 2017
Grants:
Associate investigator. Chief Investigator - Prof. Sally Robinson. CNHS - COVID 19 Project grant ($49935)
Alone Toegther Project - Countering COVID-19 exclusion through community building
Lead for Establishing Transition Pedagogy Principles in First Year Curricula (ETPPFYC) project grant ($4000.00):
Supporting transition and learning using a “study team” approach with first year Bachelor of Speech Pathology students via different modes of delivery.
Faculty Establishment Grant ($7966.00)
Establishing an early career research agenda in effective and translatable treatments in head and neck cancer rehabilitation and for occupation induced voice problems.
Academic Lead
Topic Coordinator
Specialist Teacher
- Voice and voice disorders
- Communication and swallowing disorders related to head and neck cancer
- Therapeutic communication skill development
- Voice care and knowledge in teachers
- Mental Health and speech pathology practice
- Social Determinants of Health and speech pathology practice
- First Year Experience
Professional membership
- Certified Practising Member, Speech Pathology Australia
- Current member, Australian Voice Association
- Current member, Laryngology Society of Australasia
Teaching related committees
- Member, Educational Technology Alignment Program (ETAP) Board - College representative 2018-2019
- Member, Student Portal (Compass) Committee - College representative 2018-current
- Member, First Year Teaching & Transition Advisory Group (FYTTAG) 2012-2016
- Member, First Year Community of Practice (FYCoP)
- Member, School of Health Sciences First Year Transition Group
- Staff representative, Bachelor of Speech Pathology Course Review, 2012
Research related committees
- Member, Bachelor Speech Pathology Honours Committee 2012-2014
- Postgraduate student representative, Faculty Research Committee (FRC), Faculty Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Flinders Univ – 2014
Community engagement
- Member, Speech Pathology Australia Conference Planning Committee, 2018
- Lead, Scientific Planning Committee for 2018 Adelaide SPA Conference
- Regular Speech Pathology Australia Conference paper reviewer
- Peer reviewer, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Head and Neck, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica
- Regular mentor for students and clinicians regarding clinical voice issues
- Reviewed & advised re: voice referral priorities for SA Health, 2015
- Member, Developmental Screening & Literacy Reference Group Child & Family Health Service, SA 2011-2013
- Member, Scientific Planning Committee, Speech Pathology Conference, 2009
- Previous editor, Voiceprint - Australian Voice Association.
Invited presenter
- Audiology Australia SA Chapter Conference, 2018
- 3rd Laryngology Society of Australasia Conference, 2018
- Launch Head & Neck Patient Guide, SAHMRI, 2018
- Flinders Univ Speech Pathology & Audiology Assoc 25th Anniversary, 2018 (inaugural president)
- Regular Voice care training for professional & trainee professional voice users including Flinders School of Education students
- Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Nurses Group, National Conference 2017
- Audiology Australia Webinar, 2017
- Country SA - Head & Neck Cancer Study Day, 2017
- Laryngology SA ‘Dysphagia & Head Neck Cancer’, 2013
- Paediatric Voice workshop, Women's & Children's Health Network, 2012
In collaboration with students and colleagues across the three schools in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Jane developed several videos for first year bachelor students about the first year experience.
First Year Experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGl429KCz8
Thriving and Surviving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJ9RkiRnmI
Study Life Balance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuViZaJ0so8
Online at Uni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4p4fQFrfI
Peer Mentoring
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South Australia 5042
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