Current students

  • Sarah Wang Phonetics and phonology in third language acquisition (2nd year; funded by ESRC; co-supervisor: Claire Nance)
  • Seren Parkman The role of chronological, biological and social ageing in speech production (2nd year; funded by ESRC; co-supervisor: Claire Nance)
  • Maya Dewhurst Nasal voices in accents of English (3rd year; funded by ESRC; co-supervisors: Danielle Turton & Claire Nance)
  • Lois Fairclough Exploring the boundaries of intra-speaker variation (3rd year; funded by ESRC; co-supervisors: Georgina Brown & Soundscape Voice Evidence)

Completed PhD students

  • Emily Gorman Spatial and temporal variation in speech planning: Evidence from lateral clusters, PhD 2025 (current position: Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University)
  • Takayuki Nagamine Acoustic and articulatory dynamics of L2 English liquids produced by L1 Japanese speakers, PhD 2024 (current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL)
  • Andrea Brink Siem Acoustics and articulation of non-modal phonation, PhD 2023 (current position: Linguistics Technician at Lancaster University)
  • Bahar Aksu The influence of L1 Turkish regional dialects on L2 English speech production, PhD 2022 (current position: Lecturer in Phonetics at Erzincan Binali Yildirim University)
  • Roy Alderton Salience and social meaning in speech production and perception, PhD 2020 (current position: Lecturer in Phonetics at City University of London)
  • Ozgur Parlak Interaction, corrective feedback, and the development of lexical stress, PhD 2019 (current position: Assistant Professor at American University of Sharjah)

Supervision interests

I am interested in supervising students who wish to carry out research in the following areas:

  • articulatory phonetics / vocal tract imaging
  • laboratory phonology / articulatory phonology / task dynamics
  • sound change
  • computational modelling of articulation, sound change, etc.
  • more generally: creative approaches to interesting questions in speech research

I am happy to be involved in speech technology projects given an appropriate co-supervisor who specialises in that area. I particularly welcome projects that make use of our lab’s specialist instrumentation, which includes electromagnetic articulography (EMA), high-speed ultrasound, electropalatography (EPG), electroglottography (EGG), and aerodynamics systems.

Note that cross-institutional supervision (e.g. with University of Manchester) is also available through our doctoral training centres: NWSSDTP and NWCDTP.