Education

University of York 2020-2024: PhD in Linguistics (Forensic Speech Science)
Title: Towards improving transcripts of audio recordings in the criminal justice system.
Supervised by Dr Vincent Hughes & Dr Richard Rhodes

University of York 2018-2019: MSc in Forensic Speech Science (Distinction)
Research project: An investigation into the efficacy of disfluency analysis as a parameter for forensic speaker comparisons.
The disfluency production of 20 West Yorkshire male speakers was compared across three forensically-relevant speech styles: a mock police interview, a paired conversation and a voicemail message. Findings published in Harrington, Rhodes & Hughes (2021).

University of York 2014-2018: BA in French & Linguistics (First class honours)
Final year modules largely focused on phonetics. English Language Assistant (British Council) in 3 schools in Lyon, France for 9 months during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
2023-2024: L05H Forensic Phonetics, L32M Research in Forensic Speech Science, L44M Sociophonetics
2022-2023: L05H Forensic Phonetics
2021-2022: L09C Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology
2020-2021: L09C Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology

Memberships

Student member of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics
Student member of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics
Student member of the International Phonetic Association
Member of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians

Roles

Former student representative for the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics