Dr Claire Timmins

Senior Teaching Fellow

Speech and Language Therapy

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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 currently provide all Phonetics teaching alongside Clinical Linguistics (pragmatics, semantics, grammar, sociolinguistics).

I am interested in the application of technology and social media for teaching, learning and assessment. Further interests include the use of online techniques for the learning and teaching of phonetics skills, and the use of playful learning techniques.

I am currently the Director of Teaching for the Department of Psychological Sciences and Health.

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Area of Expertise

  • Articulatory Speech Analysis (Electropalatography)
  • Accent variation and change
  • Playful learning in HE

Prize And Awards

Best Overall
Recipient
18/5/2023
Digital Innovator
Recipient
13/5/2021
Digital Innovator
Recipient
13/5/2020
Most Innovative Teacher
Recipient
10/5/2019
Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
Recipient
18/10/2018

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Teaching

I am module leader and lecturer for the following:

B6118 Clinical Phonetics and Phonology

B6119 Anatomy and Physiology for Speech and Language Pathology 2

B6117: Linguistics 1 Introduction to Language and Communication

B6235: Linguistics 2 Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics

B6340: Linguistics 3 Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism and Speech Acoustics

I also provide supervision for 4th year undergraduate dissertations.

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Research Interests

My current research lies in the use of creative and playful learning in Higher Education. I am interested in how we can use technology and gaming to increase student engagement and successfully achieve learning outcomes.

I am also interested in how we can support and develop Programme Leaders in their role at Strathclyde. 

 

Professional Activities

Claire Timmins, Mincraft and articulate mandibles - PGZ@PL games and practice mini (PODCAST)
Recipient
14/11/2022
University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
Member
10/10/2022
The Journal of Social Media for Learning (Journal)
Guest editor
19/3/2022
Social Media in Higher Education
Organiser
14/12/2021
Speech And Language Therapy (Organisational unit)
Chair
1/10/2021
18th Biennial Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
Organiser
22/6/2021

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Projects

Fine phonetic variation and sound change: A real-time study of Glaswegian (also Sounds of the City)
Stuart-Smith, Jane (Principal Investigator) Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2011 - 01-Jan-2014
An online Ultrasound Tongue Imaging resource for Phonetics, Linguistics, and Speech Therapy teaching at Scottish Universities (Seeing Speech)
Stuart-Smith, Jane (Principal Investigator) Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator) Scobbie, James (Co-investigator) Turk, Alice (Co-investigator) Durham, Mercedes (Co-investigator) Beavan, Dave (Co-investigator) Barras, Will (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/
01-Jan-2011 - 20-Jan-2013

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Contact

Dr Claire Timmins
Senior Teaching Fellow
Speech and Language Therapy

Email: claire.timmins@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3793