Dr Deborah Harding
Contact
- Email: d.harding@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
- Location: St George's
- Faculty: Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education
- School: Centre for Allied Health
About
My comprehensive experience in health and social care practice, management and leadership across a range of settings underpins my teaching, learning and research.
A speech and language therapist by profession, I remain both HCPC registered and an RCSLT member. Clinically, I specialised in disorders of language and non-language cognition. I have an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology.
I have multi-professional management and leadership experience as an in-patient services manager, service development manager and associate director in physical and mental health. I have held not-for-profit sector board positions. Through my leadership roles I became interested in developing people and in quality improvement, including the use of action learning, the application of personal construct psychology and supervision practices. My PhD research explored supervision for the allied health professions.
I moved to higher education in 2008. I have developed and led multi-professional post-registration education with a focus on policy, service improvement, quality and innovation. I currently hold a part-time role as an associate professor and director for workforce development. From 2017 to 2019, I also held a part-time role as consultant and professional lead for speech and language therapy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
In 2015, my curriculum development work in quality improvement received a Health Innovation Network/ Health Education South London Innovation Grant. I am currently leading curriculum development for a multi-professional MSc Advanced Clinical Practice.
I have delivered commissioned service evaluations including work for Macmillan Cancer Support and for NHS Improvement, including work with the Chief Allied Health Professions' Officer's team on the development of AHP leadership across the NHS in England. I have contributed to revision of supervision guidance for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and am leading work with Health Education England to develop supervision guidance for advanced level practitioners in training and practice.
Academic responsibilities
Associate Professor, School Director Workforce Development
Qualifications
- BMedSci (Speech)
- MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology
- PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- PhD
Videos of my work
The Permeable Practitioner: Dealing with uncertainty in clinical practice
A Bridges Self Management Webinar: 18/05/20 exploring ideas from research with allied health professionals about the behaviours and characteristics which help us to navigate the inevitable uncertainties we encounter in practice.
The Permeable Practitioner: Dealing with uncertainty in clinical practice
A Bridges Self Management Webinar: 18/05/20 exploring ideas from research with allied health professionals about the behaviours and characteristics which help us to navigate the inevitable uncertainties we encounter in practice.
Reflections on patient and professional interactions and remote working: similar but different
A Bridges Self Management Webinar: 05/08/20 sharing reflections and some hints and tips about remote consultations in healthcare