Accent and Social Justice in Education and Professional Contexts Workshop Program 2026

All talks are 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A

12.00pm Lunch 
1.00pm Welcome  
1.15pm Linguistic Discrimination in Higher Education: A student-staff collaborative approach to tackling accent bias Christian Illbury (Edinburgh University) 
1.35pm Monolingual Language Ideology in English Education Policy in a time of divisive politics Heather Smith (Newcastle University) 
1.55pm Beyond Accent: Linguistic Justice, Recognition and the Experiences of Highly-Skilled Refugee Women Sara Ganassin 
2.15pm Accent bias in medical education Karen Corrigan, Mary Robinson, James Fisher (Newcastle University) 
2:35pm Break 
2:50 How does your accent shape your university experience?  Newcastle University Phonetics & Phonology Cross-Faculty Research Group 
3:10 Discussion 
3:55 Closing Remarks