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Research
My main research interests are in the areas of forensic speech science (see FSS @ York), discourse-pragmatic change (see dipvac.org), and sociophonetics.
I am currently investigating how generative AI text and audio systems reflect individual and group-level language features, and also pursuing research into attitudes to dialectal variation in schools. My PhD project focused on the phonetic variation of words across discourse-pragmatic contexts and applied to the task of forensic voice comparison.
Teaching
2024–(ongoing) Lecturer, Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Advanced Topics in Phonetics & Phonology 2024–(ongoing) (UG, convenor)
Linguistics as Data Science 2024–(ongoing) (UG, convenor)
Forensic Phonetics 2022–(ongoing) (UG, support)
Quantitative Methods, 2025/26 (PGT, convenor)
Research in Forensic Speech Science 2025–(ongoing) (PGT, support)
Sociophonetics 2024/25 (PGT, support)
Chair of the Ethics Committee (2025–ongoing)
2024 Associate Lecturer, School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University -
Phonetics workshops
2023, 2025 Facilitator, Accents and Identity Future Learn course, University of York
2021–2023 Graduate Teaching Assistant Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Forensic Phonetics
Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology
Acoustic Phonetics and Phonological Analysis
Project Roles
Current
2025–2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Person-specific automatic speaker recognition, UoYork (PI: Vincent Hughes)
2025–2026 Principal Investigator, You're having me on: assessing deepfake audio performance across regional and L2 dialects of English UoYork (IAFPA research grant)
2025 Principal Investigator, Enhancing Voice-Based AI Coaching for Communication Skills Training, UoYork (AHRC-Aligned Impact Accelerator Fund)
Past
2023–2024 Research Associate, Speech accommodation in audio-only and audiovisual interactions (PI: Justin Lo), Lancaster University
2023–2024 Freelance Research Associate, Wait, what?! York English Corpus 2023 (PI: Sali Tagliamonte), University of Toronto
2022–2023 Research Associate, Interactions in Grammatical Systems: North-South Dialect Variation in England (PI: Claire Childs), University of York
2022–2023 Materials developer, York English Language Toolkit , Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
Education
2021–2024 PhD in Linguistics, University of York - supervisors Paul Foulkes, Vincent Hughes & Traci Walker
2017-2018 MSc Forensic Speech Science, University of York (Merit)
2014-2017 BA Linguistics, University of York (First)
Roles
2024–(ongoing) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) Research Network Steering Committee
2021–(ongoing) Chair, FSS @ York Research Group FSS Talk colloquia
2022–2024 Graduate Teaching Assistant Representative for Dept of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
2021–2023 Editor, York Papers in Linguistics
2021 Organising Committee, 6th Postgraduate Academic Researchers in Linguistics at York (PARLAY) Conference
Membership
2023–(ongoing) International Phonetic Association - Student member
2021–(ongoing) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) Research Network
2020–(ongoing) International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) - Student member
Awards / Funding
2025 York Impact Accelerator Fund (AHRC-Aligned) for Enhancing Voice-Based AI Coaching for Communication Skills Training, July 2025 - £2,000
2025 IAFPA Research Grant for You’re having me on: assessing deepfake audio performance across regional and L2 dialects of English, January 2025 - £1,440.44
2024 Best student presentation prize awarded at Changing Discourses – Aspects of Linguistic, Social and Discourse Variation (DiPVaC6), 13 June
2024 Humanities Research Centre, University of York Doctoral Fellowship, June 2024 - £500
2023 WRoCAH large award to present at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023 (ICPhS), Prague, Czechia - £1,346
2023 WRoCAH large award for primary research trip to the University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of Canterbury, NZ - £3,476
2022-23 WRoCAH Research Employability Project Award. Working with Voice 21 on sociolinguistic variation and oracy education in schools - £1,100
2021 Nominated as GTA of the Year, University of York
2021 - 2024 Doctoral AHRC funding through WRoCAH
2018 Masters Funding Award, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Melbourne, April 2023 - Which one's sleepier, a koala or a jet-lagged PhD student?
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