Biography: I was appointed Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science in 2007, and teach mainly on our new MSc programme in that subject. I have an MA (Hons) from Edinburgh and a PhD from Newcastle, and have held teaching and research positions in phonetics, speech acoustics and audiology, phonology and sociolinguistics at universities in Germany and around the UK, including York (2000-2002) and Aberdeen, where I was Director of the Phonetics Laboratory for five years.