Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work: accentbias.ed.ac.uk

Thrilled that The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, published barely a month ago, has won its first award: Curtin University's "Publication of the Year"! 🏆 (Co-editor Sender Dovchin works at Curtin.) 🎉 Get yours here 😉: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA

I gave a keynote on accent bias and social mobility at the ABI (Assoc. of British Insurers) last week. Alongside my keynote, they invited me to write a blog post on our work which you can now read below: www.abi.org.uk/news/blog-ar...

“Native English authenticity can sometimes lead to an automatic sense of trust.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interesting stuff! And one of the papers that we're going to be talking about on our course in June... BBC News - Five year olds 'link accents with intelligence' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We're published!!! 🎉 Dimensions of Linguistic Variation academic.oup.com/book/59713 Chris Cieri's work at the LDC led him to ask: what do we need to make linguistic corpora comparable? These 30 chapters are the start of an answer. Rest well, Chris. We did it. www.ldc.upenn.edu/christopher-...

Are Scottish accents really more aggressive? A linguist explains theconversation.com/are-scottish...

A fully funded PhD opportunity at Nottingham Trent University: "Human-Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Online Language Crimes" To start in September/October 2025. Closing date for applications is Friday 14 February 2025. Full details of the project and how to apply: