I was recently interviewed for Radio 4’s AntiSocial on a topic close to my heart: accent bias in England. I talk about how northern and southern accents are evaluated differently, and the deep-rooted prejudices behind these judgements Catch my segment at 43:31! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Very exciting to be mentioned in a parliamentary debate on regional accents and social mobility! 🎬 Clip below! 👇 The debate drew on research by me & @robdrummond.bsky.social Huge thanks to @joplatt.bsky.social MP for championing this.

We had a great day in Westminster yesterday, talking to MPs and members of the House of Lords about our new research project. Westminster Voices is run by @robdrummond.bsky.social and me and investigates accents in politics. 1/5 accentism.org/westminster-...

Can accents change without in-person contact? My new chapter with Dr Ella Jeffries shows they can! We tracked first-year university students during Covid when learning and social activities were all online. If they had regular contact with new people, change was possible. brill.com/edcollchap-o...

Can young people in South East England identify where in the region others are from based only on their accent? My first post on Bluesky is a new paper alert! I explore methodological advancements in dialect identification tasks. Available Open Access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Methodological Advancements in Dialect Identification Tasks: Perception, Representation and Social Meaning in South East England

This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech ....

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