Jess Foulkes is a speech and language therapist and clinical academic specialising in adults with acquired brain injury. Jess' research has focused on exploring how assessments of decision-making capacity are conducted in hospital settings, shining a light on how SLTs can support individuals to retain autonomy over life-changing decisions. More recently she has been working as a clinical lecturer in speech and language therapy. Jess is passionate about giving a voice to individuals with communication difficulties and also for raising the awareness of the important work that SLTs do to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable in society.