{"id":1364,"date":"2026-06-05T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?page_id=1364"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:20:00","slug":"accent-and-social-justice-workshop-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/ongoing-events\/accent-and-social-justice-workshop-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Accent is an important part of how people communicate and express identity. In Higher Education (HE), accents can also shape how individuals are perceived, judged, or treated by others. As a research group, we have had a particular interest in&nbsp;accent&nbsp;and social justice&nbsp;over the last few years&nbsp;and ran a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/2022\/03\/11\/accent-and-social-justice-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">workshop in 2022<\/a>&nbsp;on this theme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently&nbsp;we have been considering&nbsp;linguistic diversity and accent bias&nbsp;in higher education&nbsp;with plans in motion to conduct a&nbsp;large-scale&nbsp;survey later this year. Before launching our&nbsp;research,&nbsp;we are planning&nbsp;another workshop&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong>24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;June&nbsp;2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This workshop will focus on work&nbsp;on linguistic&nbsp;diversity in&nbsp;the&nbsp;workplace but&nbsp;also anything else surrounding the topic of accent and social justice.&nbsp;Presentations&nbsp;will be on proposed, in-progress,&nbsp;or completed work,&nbsp;and&nbsp;will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&amp;A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time &amp; Date<\/strong>:&nbsp;12-4pm,&nbsp;24th&nbsp;June&nbsp;2026<strong><br>Location<\/strong>: B.32&nbsp;Barbara Strang Teaching Centre (BSTC)<br><br><strong>Lunch will be provided from 12pm!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/accent-and-social-justice-in-education-and-professional-contexts-workshop-program-2026\/\">Workshop programme<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/blog\/\">Related project<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Our Survey (TBC)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1387\" 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In Higher Education (HE), accents can also shape how individuals are perceived, judged, or treated by others. As a research group, we have had a particular interest in&nbsp;accent&nbsp;and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/ongoing-events\/accent-and-social-justice-workshop-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12157,"featured_media":0,"parent":1359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1364\/revisions\/1401"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}