Graduate Studies

Graduate Teaching:We are recruiting now for these programmes:

MRes Speech, Langugage & Cognition

The MRes in Speech, Language & cognition is a one-year graduate-level taught programme that provides tailored training for students with a first degree in linguistics, speech science, psychology or related disciplines wishing to undertake future PhD research. More details>>

Research Projects

UCL Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences is internationally recognised for its excellent research into the perception and production of speech. For more details about our latest research see our webpages More>>

Speech Science Forum Talks

The Research Department of Speech, Hearning and Phonetic Sciences host Speech Science Forums in Chandler House More>>

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Summer Course in English Phonetics

Teaching Staff

The course Director is Michael Ashby, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Phonetics at UCL, and pronunciation editor of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. The IPA Certificate strand will be led by Dr Patricia Ashby, Emeritus Fellow to the University of Westminster and National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, author of the popular textbook Speech Sounds (second edition, 2005) and of Understanding Phonetics (2011).

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Other lecturers will include (subject to confirmation):
  • Professor J. C. Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at UCL, author of the Longman Pronunication Dictionary (third edition, 2008) and English Intonation (2006).
  • Dr Beverley Collins, Centre for Linguistics, University of Leiden, Netherlands, and Visiting Professor, Department of English, Ghent University, Belgium, co-author of Practical Phonetics and Phonology (second edition, 2008)
  • Dr Jane Setter, Director, English Pronunciation Research Unit, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, joint editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th edition, 2011)
All practical classes will be led by phoneticians and experienced EFL specialists.
 

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