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Email us at info@lagb.org.uk and we’ll find an expert to meet your needs!
Cardiff University
Areas of Interest:
Onomatopoeia, phonological development
Experience:
BBC Radio 4
University of Huddersfield
Areas of Interest:
Forensic phonetics, language variation, West Yorkshire English.
Experience:
Huddersfield Examiner, BBC Radio Leeds.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Areas of Interest:
Language variation and change, accents and dialects of English (particularly in Greater Manchester), attitudes towards language, perceptions of dialects and dialect boundaries
Experience:
North West Tonight, BBC Radio Manchester, Key 103, The Conversation, The Independent, Daily Mail, ITV News, Manchester Evening News.
Westminster University
Areas of Interest:
Endangered languages, language death theory, accents and dialects, bilingualism.
Experience:
Swiss Info, The i.
University of Kent
Areas of Interest:
Grammar, non-standard Englishes, Internet language
Experience:
Times Literary Supplement, BBC Radio 2 Lost in Translation, BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, and regular guest appearances on local BBC radio stations.
La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia)
Areas of Interest:
Endangered languages, etymology and word meaning, internet language, gesture.
Experience:
The Big Issue (Australia), Babel Magazine, Inside Himalayas, Dangerous Women Project, Superlinguo, Lingthusiasm podcast.
University of Sussex
Areas of Interest:
American versus British English, dictionaries, vocabulary and meaning, politeness.
Experience:
BBC Radio 4 (Today Programme, Fry’s English Delight, Word of Mouth), Radio 3 (The Verb), BBC 1 (Imagine), Quartz, The Skeptic, Oxford Dictionaries. Quoted in: Sunday Times, Daily Mail, New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, etc.
Cardiff University
Areas of Interest:
Sociolinguistics, accents and dialects of English, language variation and change, language attitudes, English as a world language.
Experience:
BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Scotland, CapitalFM/Heart Wales, WalesOnline.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Areas of Interest:
Language variation and change, youth language, multicultural urban British English, pedantry, accents and music
Experience:
BBC Breakfast TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Local Radio, BBC Magazine, The Conversation
University of York
Areas of Interest:
Intonation, phonology, Arabic linguistics
Experience:
BBC Radio 4
University of Edinburgh
Areas of Interest:
Shetland dialect, grammar, LGBT+ linguistics, public understanding of linguistics
Experience:
Shetland Life, The Library is Open
University of Reading
Areas of Interest:
Phonetics, phonology, pronunciation (esp English of various kinds), intonation, speech rhythm, speech and identity. Forensic speaker comparison. Accents.
Experience:
Various local (mainly Berks) and some national (Virgin) radio stations (most often), TV, newspapers and the web. Advised and appeared on the BBC and Associated Press broadcasts on the accent of Jihadi John prior to his identification, appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh show talking about phonetics as a subject/science, and was interviewed for an article in the Observer on pronunciation variation in the UK. On the advisory board of Babel: The Language Magazine.