I am a Professor of Phonetics in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, where I co-direct the Phonetics Lab.

My research involves sociolinguistics, phonetics, laboratory phonology, speech articulation and multilingualism. I have focussed extensively on the Celtic languages, especially Scottish Gaelic, and multilingualism with English. My current research projects involve acoustic and articulatory approaches to articulatory setting, acquisition of articulation in Gaelic-English bilinguals, and acquisition of articulation in Estonian monolingual children. I am also investigating the historical and contemporary evolution of accent in the north of England using archival data, articulatory phonetics, and arts-based methods. I supervise projects on L2 and heritage prosody, multilingualism in China, variation and change in English, and the voice and ageing.

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