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Lauren Harrington
Postdoctoral Fellow

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Biography

Lauren's research interests are in forensic speech science, sociophonetics and speech technology. Her PhD investigated the production of transcripts of evidential audio recordings within the criminal justice system, exploring methods of transcription by forensic phonetics experts, non-expert police transcribers and automatic speech recognition systems. After finishing her PhD, she worked for 16 months as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESRC funded project 'Person-specific automatic speaker recognition'. She is currently undertaking an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, continuing her research on transcription in the criminal justice system.

Career

University of York
  • ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-2026)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2024-2025)
  • PhD in Linguistics (2020-2024)
  • MSc in Forensic Speech Science (2018-2019)
  • BA in French & Linguistics (2014-2018)

Contact details

Lauren Harrington
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Vanbrugh College Block B, V/B/115
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

lauren.harrington@york.ac.uk