Our lab phonetics and phonology seminar was given by Dr Kirsty McDougall today. Here we heard about some recent findings from the IVIP

Our very own Kirsty McDougall presented some IVIP research on voice similarity at the wonderful workshop on The Interdisciplinary Voice at Newnham College today. PhD students Alice Paver & Chloe Patman thoroughly enjoyed the varied and fascinating talks too.

We're used to identity parades in criminal investigations. But what role can voice ID play in tracking down perpetrators? Selwyn fellow Dr Kirsty McDougall is co-author of this piece for Counsel magazine. counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/ident… IVIP @JeremyRobson9 Language Sciences

And a special thanks to all those who came to chat at my poster yesterday afternoon. Always a pleasure to talk about our work from IVIP with Natalie Braber & @WrightDW!

Oral presentations from our lab at IAFPA! Alice Paver spoke about work from the IVIP and Chloe Patman presented work from her PhD🇨🇦

Our first P&P Seminar talk of the year was given by second-year PhD student Alice Paver, who presented research from the IVIP & her PhD on ‘Voice memory and the role of pitch distribution in a population’. Looking forward to more fascinating talks this Michaelmas term!

Could your accent make you sound guilty? A new study from MMLL Cambridge Jesus College Nottingham Trent University shows that British people still associate accents perceived as ‘working-class’ with criminal behaviour. Alice Paver from Cambridge Uni Phonetics & Phonology Lab explains 👇

Thrilled to say that our paper on accent bias in forensic contexts is finally out, and you can read it here: frontiersin.org/journals/commu… It’s the first in a series of studies from IVIP with @WrightDW Natalie Braber & Nik Pautz looking at what makes voices sound more guilty.

Lead author Alice Paver explains our findings on accent bias in forensic contexts, published today in Frontiers: frontiersin.org/journals/commu… See below for a quick explainer... 👇🏼

Read more here about our study, published today, on accent bias in forensic contexts

We’ve had loads of coverage in the media, which is really exciting! On Friday I was on BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC talking about our research. We’ve also had coverage in BBC News here: bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Guardian: theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/1…

The Independent: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

The Mail: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

The Times: thetimes.com/article/72e56d…

The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/1…

The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/…

Sky News: news.sky.com/story/speakers…

Courthouse News: courthousenews.com/how-accents-sw…