Dr Wouter Jansen
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Lead (MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
School of Health Sciences
- Email:
- wouter.jansen@bcu.ac.uk
- Phone:
- 0121 202 4220
Wouter is one of the course leads for the MSc Speech and Language Therapy and lectures on all 3 SLT programmes offered by the university. He teaches (clinical) linguistics, phonetics, and research methods and is currently the module lead for SPR7003 The Science of Speech, Swallowing and Hearing, SPR7004 Understanding Human Communication and Development, and HSC7011 MSc Healthcare Professional Project, the final year dissertation module for pre-registration Allied Health Professions MSc courses. Wouter's academic background is in linguistics, especially phonetics and phonology.
Wouter has a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Groningen (cum laude, 1997; equivalent to an MA in the pre-2002 Dutch HE system). He has a PhD in Linguistics, also from the University of Groningen (completed in 2004; supervisors: Dicky Gilbers and John Nerbonne). Wouter was a Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin in 2003-2004, and taught a module on advanced phonological theory at University College London in 2004-2005. In 2005-2006 he was a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the department of Clinical Language Sciences at Leeds Metropolitan University. Wouter joined Birmingham City University as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics in 2006.