Jenny Iwarsson

Primary fields of research

Effects of respiratory strategy and lung volume on voice
Effects of body posture and muscle tension on voice
Voice qualities and their physiological and acoustical correlates
Voice therapy approaches and their outcome
Intermittent aphonia  -occurrence and linguistic distribution
Listeners' attitudes to individuals with speech and voice disorders

Current research

Behavioral learning and habit change in voice therapy
Cognitive load of voice therapy carry-over exercises
Effects of voice therapy exercises

Teaching

I teach courses on Voice and Voice disorders in the BA and Master study programs in Audiologopedics.

I supervise BA projects and MA theses in Voice and Fluency disorders.

I function as educational supervisor for assistant professors enrolled in the University didactic course offered by Teach, University of Copenhagen.

CV

Education

PhD (Dr of Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 2001)

General Linguistics (Stockholms University 1993)

Speech Language Pathologist Program (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 1993)

Employments

Associate professor in Audiologopedics, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Dec 2012 - present

Assistant professor in Audiologopedics, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Jul 2009 - Nov 2012

Part-time lecturer, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Jan 2007 - present.

Part-time lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007 - 2008.

Speech therapist, Institute for Speech Therapy in Northen Jutland’s County, Aalborg (the voice unit), Nov 2002 - 2009.

Supervisor of the study program in Logopedics, Karolinska Institutet, 1998 - 2002: Training of voice and speech and children with delayed speech and language development.

Lecturer in Anatomy and Voice Function, University College of Music Education in Stockholm , Aug 1997 - 2002.

Speech and language pathologist, Phoniatric Department, Huddinge Hospital, Jan 1995 - 2002.

Research assistant, Institute of Speech, Music, Hearing, KTH, part-time, Jan 1994 - Jan 2001.

Speech and language pathologist, Stadshagen’s district office, Childrens’ rehabilitation, Stockholm’s county’s home rule parliament, part-time, Jan - Dec 1994.

Speech and language pathologist, Stadshagen’s district office, Adults’ rehabilitation, Stockholm’s county’s home rule parliament, part-time, Sept - Dec 1993.

Speech and language pathologist, Childrens’ rehabilitation, Söder’s district office, Stockholm’s county’s home rule parliament, Jan - Aug 1993.

Speech therapist, Norra Ängby school, Bromma, part-time, Jan - Maj 1993.