York news
YorVoice: interdisciplinary voice research hub launched at York (1/12/23)
research presented at UKLVC conference (14/7/23)
new grant: Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR (ES/W001241/1; £996,362). This is a 3 year project running from 2022 to 2025 led by Vincent Hughes (PI), Paul Foulkes (CI) and Philip Harrison at the University of York. The project involves collaboration with the Netherlands Forensic Institute, and Oxford Wave Research.
in memoriam - Burns Cooper: we are sorry to report the passing of Professor G. Burns Cooper of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Burns took a year out to take the MSc in Forensic Speech Science at York, and was a member of IAFPA. He was a wonderful colleague and lovely person. The online obituary contains details of the G. Burns Cooper Memorial Fund to support young researchers at the University of Alaska. (23/10/20)
congratulations to our former MSc students Ben Gibb-Reid and Lauren Harrington, who have secured full scholarships from the AHRC to start their PhDs at York in 2020 (21/9/20)
congratulations to Alice Richardson, who has secured a full 1+3 scholarship from the ESRC to start her PhD at York in 2020. Alice's project is on interpreting in the asylum context, and will be co-supervised by Paul Foulkes, Nathaniel Elcock, and Martin Jones (21/9/20)
congratulations to our MSc student Tom Iszatt, who has secured a placement in October at Oxford Wave Research as QA and Customer Experience Specialist. Congratulations also to four of our other students for securing posts with police and security services. (14/7/20)
free access to: Chevrot, J.-P., Drager, K. & Foulkes, P. (eds.)(2018) Sociolinguistic variation and cognitive science. Special edition of TopiCS (Topics in Cognitive Science).
Story of Things podcast on voice recognition, with Peter French and Vince Hughes (5/6/18)