Lois Fairclough

PhD student, Associate Lecturer

Research Overview

My research interests cover forensic phonetics and sociophonetics. My PhD investigates acoustic features used as a parameter for speaker identification, focussing on how effective they are in distinguishing individual speakers. I am also interested in investigating the limits of intra-speaker variation and the implications of this for forensic casework.

Lancashire Tongues
01/10/2022 → …
Research

Lancashire Tongues: A Community-Driven Approach to Dialect Research Using Ultrasound Imaging.
Invited talk

Forensic phonetics: Exploring mismatches between judicial expectations and scientific capability
Invited talk

University of Melbourne
Visiting an external academic institution

Lancashire Tongues - Burnley
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Visible Voices
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Current and New Methods in Sociolinguistics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Forensic Voice Comparison Short-Course hosted by Lancaster University and Soundscape Voice Evidence.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Lancashire Tongues
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

New Ways of Analyzing Variation
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Phonetics Lab (Organisational unit)
Membership of committee

Best Student Poster Award
Prize (including medals and awards)