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Phonetics Laboratory

 
Forensic phonetics, sociophonetics, voice distinctiveness, voice quality, speech disfluencies

Biography

Alice is a first-year PhD student, funded by the AHRC, in collaboration with the National Crime Agency, and facilitated by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. Her project aims to look at voice distinctiveness and voice quality. Alice is supervised by Dr Kirsty McDougall, for whom she is also working as a Research Assistant on a project looking at speech disfluencies in Aboriginal Australian English. 

For the last four years, Alice has also been the Cambridge-based Research Assistant on the IVIP (Improving Voice Identification Procedures) project, assisting with planning, designing, and running experiments, preparing and delivering conference talks and posters, and writing up articles for publication in academic journals. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and then went on to the renowned MSc in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, where her final project looked at vowel trajectories and /r/ tapping in young British Pakistani men in Manchester and London. Whist in York she also worked as a Research Assistant on a WikiDialects project and 'Geordie? Mackem? Smoggie? Dialect differences in the North East of England.'

Research

Forensic phonetics, sociophonetics, accents of English in the UK.

Research Assistant
PhD Student

Contact Details

01223 760389

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