Lois Fairclough
PhD student, Associate LecturerResearch 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)