Personal statement
I joined Strathclyde in 2005 as a teaching fellow in Speech and Language Therapy with responsibility for the teaching of Clinical Phonetics and Phonology. I also provide the teaching of Sociolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics.
My research interests involve collaborations with QMU and University of Glasgow in the areas of speech production and accent variation and change. In particular I am interested in the fine detailed articulation patterns of speech production in children with Down's syndrome and the application of articulatory techniques such as EPG and Ultrasound for intervention and teaching.
Further interests include the use of online techniques for the learning and teaching of phonetics skills, and the importance of public engagement within Speech and Language Therapy.
I am currently the Course Leader for the BSc Speech and Language Pathology programme and Year 4 Tutor.
Teaching
I am module leader and lecturer for the following:
B6105 Phonetics: Transcription
B6104 Phonetics: Theory
B6103: Linguistics 1 Pragmatics and Psycholinguistics
B6227: Linguistics 2 Grammar, Semantics and Prosody
B6340: Linguistics 3 Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism and Speech Acoustics
I also provide supervision for 4th year undergraduate dissertations.
Research interests
My research interests have two separate strands. The first involves the investigation of specific articulation patterns in the discordered speech patterns in children with Down's syndrome. The second is concerned with the accent changes in the Glaswegian accent, and the contribution of media in these changes.
Professional activities
- Explorathon 2017
- Participant
- 29/9/2017
more professional activities
Projects
- An online Ultrasound Tongue Imaging resource for Phonetics, Linguistics, and Speech Therapy teaching at Scottish Universities (Seeing Speech)
- Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator)
- This online resource is a product of the collaboration between researchers at five Scottish Universities: The University of Glasgow, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen. The resource will provide teachers and students of Practical Phonetics with synchronised ultrasound video, audio and 2D/3D diagrams of modelled speech and spontaneous speech (drawn from collected UTI and MRI corpora).
The website can be accessed at: http://www.seeingspeech.arts.gla.ac.uk/uti/ - Period 01-Jul-2011 - 20-Sep-2013
- Fine phonetic variation and sound change: A real-time study of Glaswegian (also Sounds of the City)
- Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator)
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- Period 01-Nov-2011 - 01-Nov-2014
more projects
Address
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Graham Hills Building
Graham Hills Building
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