We're celebrating World Voice Day today with a new pamphlet: Teacher! Your Voice Matters.

Check out our link tree below or in our bio to get your copy.

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Yesterday was Parky Charter Day. Pictured below is BVA Patron Mark Mardell and a number of the Movers & Shakers podcast team. Mark was a guest speaker on his previous show on Radio 4 today

An interesting article in the Times today around menstrual cycles and singing.

Seeing red — why opera stars want to talk periods - bit.ly/4cQSTDO

Due to unforeseen circumstances, our event Out in Front (Saturday 27 April) will be postponed for the foreseeable. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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'Speak Easily', and her presentation and communication skills clients include the UN, the Dean and Fellows of the World Economic Forum, and leading FTSE 100 companies.

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Morwenna's practice is informed by extensive research into the physical and vocal skills of acting, and their effectiveness in the workplace. She founded and led one of London’s leading Voice and Accent companies,

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She has voice coached in the West End, for the BBC, in regional and touring theatre, and for film and theatre at home and abroad, in addition to working as a Storyteller, Actor and Director.

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Morwenna Rowe is Course Leader for the MA Acting program (both Classical and Contemporary courses) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, on which she also leads in Voice, Text and Accent/Dialect.

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Her experience in education alongside her experience in voice disorders enables her to bring an understanding of the challenges of working in education alongside the importance of vocal care and efficient voice use.

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and adapting their planning and classrooms accordingly. She is a qualified teacher of children and adults with specific learning difficulties and taught daily literacy to key stages two and three.

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Alongside Professor Guri Sandhu, she runs the tertiary voice clinic at Charing Cross Hospital (Imperial College NHS Trust). In her early career Abi worked in mainstream schools advising teachers on facilitating children with speech and language difficulties

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Abi Simpson, MRCSLT, has twenty years of experience as a speech and language therapist. She is Clinical Lead Specialist SLT in ENT Laryngology, Airway Reconstruction and Voice.

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This book tells of navigating the challenges of school leadership with inspiring humility and thoughtfulness.

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He has written blogs for Positive News, SecEd, Schools Week, Higher Education Policy Institute and AQi. In August 2023, he published New School Leader: What Now? with Critical Publishing.

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Part of his self-development to Headship was working with a voice coach. Neil is often asked to comment on national issues in education and has appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC News, ITV News, BBC Radio 5 Live and local radio.

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Neil is particularly interested in the importance of voice in teaching and leadership, believing that that voice development and voice care are crucial to effective practice, confidence and teacher wellbeing.

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Neil Renton is currently the Head Teacher of Harrogate Grammar School, a large comprehensive secondary school of over 2100 students in North Yorkshire and part of the Red Kite Learning Trust.

3/3 Her private work, Parke Communication offers several different voice courses, including presentation skills and one to one coaching. Suzanne holds an MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is a voice-over artist represented by Rhubarb Voices

2/3 with peer education. Suzanne was Course Leader for Performance Preparation Academy’s BA Hons Acting for Stage and Screen. She was also their Head of Voice for eight years. She is a Visiting Lecturer in Voice at the Essex and Thames Primary Consortium

1/3 Suzanne Parke, MA, BA, is a teacher, performer, and coach with over twenty-five years’ experience in the voice industry. She is currently Leader of Learning for Peer Productions, an award-winning youth arts charity specialising in combining high quality arts practice