Projects
Person-specific Automatic Speaker Recognition: understanding the behaviour of individual speakers for applications of ASR (2022-25, ESRC, £996,363)
Voice and Identity - Source, Filter, Biometric (2015-19, AHRC, £892,000)
You came here TO DIE!? (2012-16, Australian Research Council, AUS$501,000)
Modelling features for forensic speaker comparison (2013-15, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, £9,848)
The social dynamics of language: a study of phonological variation and change in West Australian English (2014-16, Australian Research Council, AUS$320,000)
A multi-methodological approach to the instrumental phonetic and perceptual study of rhotic sounds in varieties of English (2011-13, AHRC, £27,258)
BBfor2 (2010-13, Marie Curie FP7, €3.2 million)
A Comparative Study of Language Change in Northern Englishes (2008-13, ESRC, £204,383)
Construction des Connaissances Langagières, Diversité des Usages, Contextes Sociolinguistiques ("Diverlang")(2006-10, ANR, €230,000)
A sociolinguistic and acoustic analysis of filled pauses in English (2003-4, IAFPA)
The Emergence of Structured Variation in the Speech of Tyneside Infants (1997-2001, ESRC, £150,000)
Phonological Variation and Change in Contemporary British English (1994-1997, ESRC, £222,000)