{"id":181,"date":"2018-11-08T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:12:39","slug":"sophie-meekings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/people\/sophie-meekings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Meekings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University in collaboration with University College London (school of SELLL)<br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:sophie.meekings@ncl.ac.uk\">sophie.meekings@ncl.ac.uk<\/a><br>Twitter: @sophiemeekings<br>Personal website: <a href=\"http:\/\/sophiemeekings.com\/\">sophiemeekings.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/files\/2018\/11\/Sophie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cognitive Psychology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experimental Phonetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phonetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psycholinguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sociolinguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sociophonetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speech Perception<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stuttering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The voice: investigating mechanisms of identity and change<\/em>: My research is all about how we control our voices, and how that&#8217;s different in people with atypical voices. I&#8217;m especially interested in how our environment affects the way that we speak. That could be social&#8211; who you&#8217;re talking to&#8211; or it could be acoustic&#8211; what sound is in the background. I look at acoustic changes in things like vowel space, intensity and speech rate, along with changes in cerebral bloodflow measured by fMRI. I&#8217;m currently working on a three-year programme of research investigating the links between vocal change, identity and affiliation in people with Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome, people who stammer, and neurotypical talkers.<br>I aim to make my research as inclusive as possible- please see my website for access information for prospective participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University in collaboration with University College London (school of SELLL)Email: sophie.meekings@ncl.ac.ukTwitter: @sophiemeekingsPersonal website: sophiemeekings.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6984,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","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\/6984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/1226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}