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 of Leeds students' experiences of accent-based disadvantages, and developing context-specific solutions in partnership with the Leeds University Union, EDI teams, and Higher Education institutions.
Gisela Tomé Lourido
Lecturer in Sociophonetics
Gisela Tomé Lourido is a Lecturer in Sociophonetics in the Linguistics and Phonetics department at the University of Leeds.
