I can now officially say I've completed data collection for my PhD! Ending it with 76 participants for my eye-tracking experiment.

A lot of eyeballs and organisation in the making. A momentary sigh of relief before onto the next stage, analysis time!

Treated to the views thanks to Glasgow.

Had a great time at #UKLVC15, held at
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social

I presented my research that looked at using large-scale corpora and real-time methods to model non-linear trajectories of sound change, and explore any social relevance for these significant timepoints of change. (1)

Just back from #UKLVC15 in Lancaster. Huge thank you to the organising committee (special shout-out to Claire Nance!) who managed to make it relaxed, relevant and rigorous, all at once. Fab conference.

Three cheers to @lucy-jackson.bsky.social for showing how awesome the Scottish CAT vowel is 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #uklvc15

Also the study of changes in social class and class indexicality over time! More of this please 🙏🏼

#sociolinguistics #variation #change #LVC #phonetics

Very excited to be going to #UKLVC15 tomorrow. Even more excited to be taking a break from intense eyeball viewing, to be giving a talk tomorrow on Glaswegian sound change.

See you there! 🙌

#GULP #sociolinguistics #linguistics #PhDlife

Another beautiful day for data collection! 👀

This week I took part in the annual #SGSAH symposium, where I was an interviewee for a live academic job interview.

Really grateful for the experience and hoping it was helpful to onlookers as much as it was me!

🚨SCOTTISH PARTICIPANTS WANTED to take part in an eye-tracking experiment at the University of Glasgow. 🚨 Please share to anybody who you think may be interested!

Take a look at the poster below for more info. Click on the link to take part:

uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#glasgow #linguistics

Another day, another eyeball.

Very grateful to my wonderful guinea pigs who have tested out my various experiments. Excited for what's to come over the next few months! 👀

A different break away from the PhD this Easter, in the form of trekking the Sahara and tagine in the Atlas mountains. It was great to make new friends & to turn off for a while.

Now feeling rested and ready to get back to my research, armed with my Moroccan mint tea!

Some updates for 2025 ✨

- Had a blast presenting my research on language use in the media, at the ELL Seminar (University of Glasgow). 📺

- Systems are go with my eye tracking experiment. Nothing went 'boom', and pulled through some really nice data to make sure everything is behaving.

Phew! 👀

And that's a wrap for the Christmas holidays 🎄🎅

Ended on a high with getting my pilot eye-tracking study off the ground today! This included all my 'spliced & diced' speaker stimuli, and extracted time points for the gaze analysis 👀 Excited for the break with loved ones ✌️

Had a lovely time for the GULP Lab Christmas night 🌲

Spectrograms & firepits = sounds about right 🔥🎅

Had a fantastic weekend in Belfast, at the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster FRLSU2024.

I'm very grateful to FRLSU for awarding me the student bursary award - without which it would not have been possible to present my work on mediated linguistic prejudices.

Hello brave new butterfly 🦋 world. An introduction for you all:

• PhD student in Sociophonetics at Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
• interested in language perception, implicit attitudinal measures, media effects and all things accents 🧠
• proud dog mum of Willow, the Sociophonetics sausage

Obligatory photo, of course!