Roganie Govender is a British-South African speech and language therapist. She is a consultant clinical academic speech and language therapist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.^[1]

Biography

Govender trained as a speech pathologist and audiologist in South Africa.^[2] She gained a master's degree in Communication Pathology in 1998 and, in 2018, a PhD in Behavioural Science and Health from UCL.^[3] From 2000 she worked at the Royal Free Hospital in London until June 2005 when she joined the UCLH.^[3]

She was awarded a MBE in the 2021 New Year Honours for her services to speech and language therapy.^[1]

Select publications

• Govender, R., Behanna, K., Brady, G., Coffey, M., Babb, M., and Patterson, J.M. 2021. "Shielding, hospital admission and mortality among 1216 people with total laryngectomy in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey from the first national lockdown", International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 56 (5), 1064–1073. doi:10.1111/1460-6984.12656
• Govender, R., Smith, C.H., Taylor, S.A., Grey, D., Wardle, J., and Gardner, B. 2015. "Identification of behaviour change components in swallowing interventions for head and neck cancer patients: protocol for a systematic review", Systematic Reviews 4. doi:10.1186/s13643-015-0077-4
• Allen, J.E., Clunie, G.M., Slinger, C., Haines, J., Mossey-Gaston, C., Zaga, C.J., Scott, B., Wallace, S., and Govender, R. 2022. "Utility of ultrasound in the assessment of swallowing and laryngeal function: A rapid review and critical appraisal of the literature", International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 56 (1), 174–204. doi:10.1111/1460-6984.12584