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We're so excited that our study on accent prejudice and stereotypes in forensic contexts is finally out, and has got some serious media attention over the weekend! A thread with some links is linked below, and we will retweet the links as well. Read here: frontiersin.org/journals/commu…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/…

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

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

Could your accent make you sound guilty? A new study from @MMLL_Cambridge @JesusCollegeCam @NottmTrentUni shows that British people still associate accents perceived as ‘working-class’ with criminal behaviour. @alicepaver from @CamPhonLab 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 @ivipproject with @WrightDW @NatalieBraber & Nik Pautz looking at what makes voices sound more guilty.

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

Oral presentations from our lab at IAFPA! @alicepaver spoke about work from the @ivipproject and @patman_chloe presented work from her PhD🇨🇦

@ForensicVoice @rwr500 @Kate_811 @brynuttall Happy anniversary to you at the FVC! Thanks for all your contributions and feedback to our project 😊 here's to many more years of sharing knowledge

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 @ivipproject with @NatalieBraber & @WrightDW!

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… @ivipproject @JeremyRobson9 @CamLangsci

Our very own Kirsty McDougall presented some @ivipproject research on voice similarity at the wonderful workshop on The Interdisciplinary Voice at @Newnham_College today. PhD students @alicepaver & @patman_chloe thoroughly enjoyed the varied and fascinating talks too.