Research projects

Person-specific ASR (2022-2025, ESRC, £996,362)

Anatomy, acoustics, and the individual: Investigating inter-speaker vocal tract variation for forensic speaker comparison (2019-2023, British Academy, £288,990)

The use and utility of localised speech forms in determining identity: forensic and sociophonetic perspectives. (2016-19, ESRC, £843,895)

Voice and Identity: source, filter, biometric (2015-19, AHRC, £892,210)

Modelling features for forensic speaker comparison (2013-15, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, £9,848)

Identifying correlations between speech parameters for forensic speaker comparisons (2013-2014, IAFPA)

The identification of British English accents using prosodic features (2013-2014, IAFPA)

You came TO DIE?! (2012-15, Australian Research Council, AUS$501,000)

AISEB - Accent and Identity on the Scottish-English Border (2008-11, ESRC, £608,303)

Construction des Connaissances Langagières, Diversité des Usages, Contextes Sociolinguistiques ("Diverlang")(2006-10, ANR, €230,000)

Phonological Database of Scottish English (2006-8, IAFPA, €2,200)

A sociolinguistic and acoustic analysis of filled pauses in English (2003-4, IAFPA)

BBfor2 (Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics) (2010-13, Marie Curie FP7, €3.2 million)

A Comparative Study of Language Change in Northern Englishes (2008-13, ESRC, £204,383)

A multi-methodological approach to the instrumental phonetic and perceptual study of rhotic sounds in varieties of English (2011-13, AHRC, £27,258)