Applications for project funding are considered by a Research Steering Committee. With their specialist medical knowledge, the Research Steering Group make recommendations to the trustees for their final decision on grants.
Click here to read the Constitution for the Research Steering Committee
I am a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working with children born with cleft and craniofacial conditions in Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, linking with the Nottingham Trent Cleft team. Read more
I am a Clinical Psychologist working in the Spires Cleft Centre, across the Oxford and Salisbury sites. Read more
Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Read more
I represent CLAPA, the Cleft Lip and Palate Association. Read more
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry Read more
Stephanie van Eeden, Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service and NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellow (2018-2023) Read more
I am Associate Professor of Speech and Communication at the University of Bristol and also Chief Investigator of the Cleft Collective, a national cohort study which is investigating the causes, treatments and outcomes for people born with cleft lip and/or palate. Read more
Clinical Nurse Specialist Read more
I qualified as a doctor in 2007 and have been working part-time with the cleft lip and palate team in Newcastle since 2009, with a few breaks for my three children. Read more
I am a doubly qualified specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery who has had a lifelong interest in all aspects of cleft. Read more
Retired, and living in the North Yorkshire countryside. Former Consultant Plastic and Cleft Surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the West Midlands Cleft Lip and Palate Centre. Read more
I am a research scientist with a particular interest in studying the molecular and genetic basis that leads to a cleft of the lip and/or palate. Read more
Dr Chorbachi is Consultant Audio-Vestibular Physician for the North Thames Cleft Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital and St Andrew's Centre, Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. Read more
I first heard about the charity CLEFT through Mr Brian Sommerlad, who operated on my cleft lip and palate when I was a baby and I subsequently became a trustee in 2012. Read more
I was honoured to be invited onto the board of trustees for the cleft charity a number of years ago. Read more
I am a paediatric plastic surgeon with a specialist interest in cleft lip and palate surgery at Great Ormond Street (GOSH) for the last 8 years. Read more
My son Edward was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate, and has been cared for by the GOSH team since he was born in 2010. Read more
For over 40 years, I have been involved in operating on babies, children and adults who have been born with cleft lip and/or palate. Read more