York hosts the third Interdisciplinary Voice Workshop
Event details
The third Interdisciplinary Voice Workshop comes to the University of York for the first time, held at the Guildhall on 2 and 3 July 2026. It follows earlier meetings in 2024 and 2025.
Voice studies is a growing field with wide scope for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Its areas of focus range from auditory perception and motor control, to disability and identity, to the aesthetics and politics of vocality, and to technological applications such as automatic speech recognition. Research into the vocal behaviour of non-human animals is increasingly showing how rich and varied vocal communication is across species.
The programme balances short talks with interactive panel discussions, with speakers from York, Lund, the CNRS, Bangor, Leiden, Bristol and Edinburgh. The meeting is in-person only, with places limited to 50 attendees.
The workshop is co-organised by Dr Amelia Gully and Dr Vincent Hughes of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, with Dr Sophie Meekings of the Department of Psychology, in collaboration with Dr Abbie Bradshaw and Dr Alexis Deighton MacIntyre. It is supported by YorVoice, an interdisciplinary voice project funded by the University of York.
Registration is open until 25 June 2026 and uses a tiered fee system so that colleagues can take part irrespective of funding status, including a fully funded tier.
Register on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/interdisciplinary-voice-2026/