Linguistic diversity and accent bias in Higher Education and beyond.
Dates: 2023-2024
Funding: Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship
Summary: This project aims to develop sustainable initiatives to celebrate linguistic diversity and tackle accent-based inequalities in different sectors, starting from Higher Education. Initiatives include a University-wide survey of university students' experiences of accent-based disadvantages, and developing context-specific solutions in partnership with the Leeds University Union (LUU), EDI teams, and Higher Education institutions. These include an accent equality statement co-created with academics in the Embracing Linguistic Diversity satellite, students and LUU representatives, to raise awareness of accent bias in Higher Education.
Gisela Tomé Lourido
Associate Professor in Sociophonetics
Gisela Tomé Lourido is an Associate Professor in Sociophonetics in the Linguistics and Phonetics department at the University of Leeds.
