Organising committee
| University Staff profile | LinkedIn/Bluesky handle |
|---|---|
| Professor Joanne Cleland | @joannecleland |
| @mariacairney | |
| @clairetimmins | |
| @AnjaKuschmann | |
Committee & Keynote Speakers
Organising committee
Professor Jane Stuart-Smith
Jane Stuart-Smith is Professor of Phonetics and Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow, and co-Director of the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP). Her research considers the many relationships between speech and society, taking as the basis for her work, the rich linguistic variation in Scotland in adult and child speech (e.g. Sounds of the City; Variability in Child Speech – VariCS, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Strathclyde), and sociophonetic variation over space and time in British Isles and North American Englishes (SPeech Across Dialects of English - SPADE, in collaboration with colleagues at McGill and North Carolina State Universities). Jane also works closely with colleagues in Scotland to promote the public understanding of phonetics by developing accessible web resources for speech and accents (e.g. Seeing Speech; Dynamic Dialects; STAR Speech Therapy, SpeechSTAR).
Dr Sofia Strömbergsson
Sofia Strömbergsson is an Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at Karolinska Institutet and a speech-language pathologist at Danderyd Hospital, Sweden. With a background in computational linguistics and a strong interest in the psycholinguistic aspects of speech acquisition, she has a longstanding focus on the interface between speech technology and clinical practice. Her research has explored, for example, synthetic “correction” of children’s misarticulated speech and automatic assessment methods as components in interventions for children with speech sound disorder (e.g., the TEFLON project).
Sofia’s work centres on children’s speech and language disorders, with particular emphasis on everyday impacts on intelligibility, communicative participation, and functional outcomes (e.g., the SPETS project). She also leads national investigations mapping current clinical practices for children with speech sound disorder in Sweden, with the overarching goal of strengthening national practice and ensuring equitable, high‑quality care.