Lauretta Cheng

I previously served as Research Project Manager for the ROLE Collective and continue to be involved in an administrative capacity as we work against harmful language beliefs in higher education spaces and beyond. I'm also collaborating on several qualitative and quantitative research projects that explore how the "native speaker" and related concepts are understood by different groups of people.

As an Asian Canadian researcher, I've worked to highlight the experiences of Asians in North America and advocate for moves towards transparency, equity, diversity, and inclusion in research and hiring practices.

As a language researcher, my main interest has been in sociophonetic cognition. This means I study the ways that social information interacts with how we produce, perceive, and process speech. 

In 2024, I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. Originally from the Greater Vancouver Area, my BA in Speech Sciences was from the University of British Columbia.