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Carol-Anne Murphy is an Associate Professor in speech and language therapy in the School of Allied Health, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at University of Limerick, (UL). She leads the child speech, language and communication needs research group within the school of allied health and is a member of the HIST_HRI management group. The SLCN group are particularly interested in inter-professional collaborations and partnership between health and education to support children in schools and to develop ecologically valid primary, secondary and tertiary level preventative interventions (alternatively referred to as universal, targeted and specialist levels of service delivery in the education setting). Carol-Anne has a particular interest in understanding mechanisms of intervention, effective approaches to assessment, and intervention implementation in developmental communication difficulties particularly developmental language disorder (DLD). She was a member of Catalise, an international consortium, which developed consensus on identification of and terminology for developmental language disorder and co-authored an IASLT position statement on DLD in 2017. She is currently leading an NCSE funded project to pilot and evaluate building schools' capacity to support SLCN. She has been involved as PI or collaborator in other successful grant applications including a Health Research Board Fellowship to complete doctoral studies on Profiles of Sentence Production in children with Specific Language Impairment (2013), an EU COST Action, IS1406 (2015-2019), ‘Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond-a collaboration focusing on interventions for children with difficulties learning their first language' and a recent HRB Covid Rapid Response project currently underway with the HIST_HRI research cluster. She was Vice-chair of Working Group one of the COST action who addressed theoretical underpinnings of intervention and co-edited a book (publisher Routledge), which mapped theory, practice and service delivery in child language intervention across Europe, and reflected services in individual countries.