Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

New preprint: Personally-valued voices engage reward-motivated behaviour and brain responses. osf.io/preprints/ps...

FUNDED PhD POSITIONS: Voice Communication Science (VoCS) is a Marie Curie funded doctoral training network offering 19 PhD positions for Autumn 2025 start. Applications are open! Check out vocs.eu.com for details (and read about my project at UCL here euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311332)

From 2023-24 I held a Mid-Career Fellowship from @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating human listeners' perception of voice clones / deep fakes, via a combination of experimental research and knowledge exchange. It's been a fascinating time and we now have several preprints I want to share: