Our Team

Pete is a senior lecturer in Radiotherapy and Oncology at the University of Liverpool where he teaches radiotherapy planning, physics and research skills. Prior to this, he worked as a senior lecturer and undergraduate course coordinator at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Pete’s research interests lie in the role of technology for radiotherapy education and clinical practice and particularly the use of virtual reality.

He conducted the first evaluation of a virtual linear accelerator educational resource prior to its commercialisation as VERT (Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training) and led a funded project to develop and evaluate a medical imaging 3D immersive educational environment. He has published on a wide range of educational innovations ranging from VR applications to engaging patients to provide student feedback. He co-authored the “CT Anatomy for Radiotherapy” textbook, is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice and is one of the editors of the 9th edition of Walter and Miller’s Textbook of Radiotherapy.

He has recently developed and evaluated a VR environment for supporting mental wellbeing for students and is currently co-leading an NIHR-funded project exploring the use of VR during head and neck radiotherapy. In his spare time he enjoys mountains, mud and good beer.

Peter is a Reader in Clinical Psychology in  Department of Primary Care and Mental Health at the University of Liverpool and an honorary consultant role at Liverpool University Foundation NHS Trust.   His research primarily focuses on establishing and improving psychological interventions for people with long term health conditions who are  experiencing mental health difficulties.

Peter is a member of the physics department of the University of Liverpool. He has a history
of developing scientific instruments and this has made it possible for him to change field a
number of times. With colleagues in Daresbury and Manchester he established the ALICE
accelerator at the Daresbury laboratory and commissioned a terahertz breamline and scanning near field optical microscope on ALICE to study biological organisation and cancer. He and colleagues recently developed a patented machine learning algorithm for the diagnosis of cancer and, with support from Cancer Research UK, have taken out a patent on an instrument for the early diagnosis of oral cancer: the Liverpool Diagnostic Infrared Wand (LDIR Wand), which it is planned to market through a spinout company.

Peter has been awarded a number of medals and prizes including the Mott medal of the Institute of Physics in 2006. He is also a co-recipient of the Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize through his membership of the steering committee of the UKRI "The Physics of Life" Network. He also serves on the steering committee of the Rosetrees "Physics of Medicine" Network.

Roganie is a consultant speech and language therapist and clinical-academic at University College London Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University College London Head and Neck Academic Centre. She is currently an AHP representative on the British Association of Head and Neck Oncology Council, co-research lead for the RCSLT Head and Neck CEN, and UK representative on the research board of the European Society of Swallowing Disorders (ESSD).

Roganie undertook her honours and master’s degrees in South Africa where she qualified as a speech pathologist and audiologist working at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto and the Johannesburg General Hospital prior to re-locating to the UK. She has more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, predominantly in the field of ENT and head and neck cancer focussing on dysphagia. Alongside clinical work, Roganie has been the recipient of multiple NIHR awards which have enabled her to develop as a researcher. These include a NIHR doctoral fellowship (CDRF), clinical lectureship and post-doctoral funding. Most recently she was awarded a Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award where she will work closely with researchers both in Liverpool and London collaborating on and facilitating multicentre research in head and neck pre/rehabilitation across the country. Having obtained her PhD in behavioural science and health at UCL and had training in applied health research, Roganie is ideally placed to apply these skills to her clinical research interests. Roganie was the chief investigator for SIP SMART, an SLT-led, pilot multicentre clinical trial on dysphagia prehabilitation for people with head and neck cancer. Roganie has published widely in her field, presented her work nationally and internationally and is actively involved in postgraduate teaching and research supervision alongside several professional committee roles.

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Dr. Soultana Papadopoulou, PhD (Medical School, University of Ioannina, 2014), serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Ioannina.

Her scholarship is devoted to the multifaceted study of dysphagia in both neurodevelopmental and medical contexts, with particular emphasis on the rigorous detection, comprehensive assessment, and targeted intervention of feeding and swallowing disorders, as well as the meticulous adaptation and validation of clinical screening instruments for Greek-speaking dysphagic populations.

Her research portfolio encompasses randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and authoritative chapters in international edited volumes, alongside numerous peer-reviewed articles that advance novel interventional paradigms.

She has supervised a breadth of clinical and pedagogical investigations in language development, dysphagia, and special education, contributed teaching in Erasmus exchanges, and engages actively in scientific and administrative committees. Through these endeavors, she fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and propels an integrated, lifespan-oriented understanding and management of dysphagia across diverse pathological cohorts.