Main academic positions:

• 2023-present Lecturer in Phonetics, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow
• 2020-2022 Lecturer in Phonology and Phonetics, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
• 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of York 
  
  

Qualifications:

• 2018 PhD Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
• 2012 MA Phonetics, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
• 2011 MA Literatures of Modernity, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London

I mainly study how you hear and make sounds (speech perception, phonetics, speech production), mostly in adverse listening conditions (in noise, when distracted, or trying to understand someone speaking in a different accent or in a second language). I use a combination of experimental techniques from psychoacoustics and cognitive neuroscience.

I welcome PhD applicants in projects related to speech perception, phonetics (including sociophonetics), speech production, hearing science, cognitive psychology and experimental phonology.

Most of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar link.

speech perception, phonetics, speech production, hearing science, cognitive psychology, experimental phonology, language and accent attitudes

List by: Type | Date

As Principal Investigator

• 2020 British Academy Special Research Grants: COVID-19. Communicating through COVID-19 and beyond: a multi-language study of speech perception in adverse listening conditions

• 2022 ESSEXLab Biometrics Seedcorn Fund. Listening and feeling together: Understanding the physiological correlates of shared sound appreciation to inform auditory interventions for wellbeing

• 2021 ESSEXLab Seedcorn Fund. Negotiating language(s) and identity: a small-scale mixed-method sociolinguistic study of HongKonger immigrants in Britain

As Co-Investigator

• 2021 Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account Award. “We’re in this too”: Film screening – schools’ roadshow to engage young people in conversations on mental health

• 2020 Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account Award. Documenting the Hidden: Uncovering the lived experience of young people in post-COVID 19 Essex

• ENGLANG1003 English Language & Linguistics 1B: Language, Society & Change
• ENGLANG2005 English Language & Linguistics 2B: Language, Mind, and Expression
• ENGLANG4049 Phonetics 2: Advanced Concepts
• ENGLANG5103 Methods in Phonetics