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Silver anniversary for Association born in York

Posted on 2 August 2016

IAFPA celebrates a quarter-century by returning to its roots

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Well over a hundred delegates from across the globe congregated in York last week for the 25th conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics. IAFPA, which started life in York in 1991 as an informal meeting of academics, private practitioners and representatives of governmental labs involved in the analysis of speech and audio recordings for the police and law courts, has grown substantially in size and now has a membership base across dozens of countries worldwide.

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Keynote talks were given by forensic statistician Dr. Tereza Neocleous (University of Glasgow), the UK Home Office's Forensic Science Regulator Dr. Gillian Tully, and Prof. Peter French (University of York), who is IAFPA President and one of the Association's founder members. At the end of the conference Prof. French was awarded lifetime membership for his services to the Association.

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The prize for Best Student Presentation went to Sula Ross, formerly a student on the MSc in Forensic Speech Science and now a Research Assistant on a project being run by York MSc/PhD Erica Gold at the University of Huddersfield.
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The next IAFPA conference will take place in Split, Croatia, in July 2017.
 
See more photographs from the event HERE.

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