Professional services

Editorial and advisory boards

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

SOAS GLOCAL Regional Advisory Committee

Babel Afial 

Section head

IGDD Language variation

Reviewing (ad hoc)

Language Variation and Change, Journal of Phonetics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Journal of Sociolinguistics, PLOS ONE, Language and Speech, Speech Communication, Phonetica, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Laboratory Phonology, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, Science & Justice, IEEE Affective Computing, Frontiers in Psychology, English World-Wide, Linguistik Online, European Journal of Audio and Signal Processing, Linguistic Society of America, ERC starting grants, ESRC grants, DFG grants, Linguistics Vanguard, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Scientific committee

International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) 2014, Interspeech 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022 Acoustical Society of America Spring Meeting 2015, Speech Prosody 2016, ICASSP 2017, PaPE 2017, 2019, Sociolinguistics Symposium 2020, UKLVC 2019, Scientific Area Chair ICPHS 2023

Conference / workshop organization

06/2015    Workshop on mixed models with R, co-organizer, University of Cambridge

06/2015    Satellite workshop to Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) on The Phonetics of Regional Variation, University of Cambridge

06/2015    Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), University of Cambridge 

09/2014    Principal organizer; inter-Departmental discussion of scientific papers

09/2014    International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)Conference 2014, University of Zurich; Member of the organizing committee

10/2013    Phonetik & Phonologie 9, University of Zurich; Principal organizer; international conference with approximately 80 participants

08/2013    Scientifica Zürcher Wissenschaftstage ETH and University of Zurich; Principal organizer of the stall for the Phonetics Laboratory

04/2012    Research on Prosody in Switzerland, University of Zurich; Principal organizer; national conference with approximately 20 participants

11/2011   Monthly Journal Club meetings

Departmental administration

10/18 Director of Studies, Master of English Language by Distance (MAELD), Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

10/18 Undergraduate Admissions Officer, Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

10/18 Member of the Research Committee, Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

10/17 – 09/18 Member of the Coordinating Committee, Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

01/18 – 04/18 Disability Officer, Department of Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Professional affiliations

British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

Swiss Linguistics Society (SSG)

International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)