teaching

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -- William Butler Yeats

Current Teaching

  • 2022 -
    Undergraduates
    • [SPE1053] Linguistics and Phonetics I
    • [SPE2052] Linguistics and Phonetics II
    • [DEN1101] Anatomy of Head and Neck
  • 2022 -
    Postgraduates
    • [SPE8151] Phonetics I: Speaker, Speech and Language
    • [SPE8210] Phonetics II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody

Current PhD students

  • 2023 -
    Melissa Schorah
    • Topic - Individual differences in temporal predictions in speech: word segmentation and conversational turn-taking
    • Supervised with Laurence White
  • 2023 -
    Xinyu Zhu
    • Adverb reduplication
    • Supervised with Michelle Sheehan and William van der Wurff
  • 2024 -
    Adrian Yuanlong Wang
    • Fricative perception
    • Supervised with Niamh Kelly and Rory Turnbull

Past Teaching

  • 2021-2022
    [LET-ETCENB102] British English Phonetics - Seminars
    Radboud University, Netherlands [UG]
  • 2021-2022
    [SCRSEM2 V] BA Dissertation Supervision (BA werkstuk Engelse Taalkunde)
    Radboud University, Netherlands [UG]
  • May – Jun 2018
    Language and Cognition – Core Practical
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford [UG]
  • Feb 2018
    Psycholinguistics – The Mental Representation of Sound and Acoustic-Phonetic Mapping
    Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford [UG-FHS]
  • Oct 2017 – Mar 2018
    [Paper VIII] General Linguistics
    Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Oxford (Worcester College, Christ Church) [UG-prelim]

Summer Schools and Outreach

  • Jul – Aug 2018
    Sociolingusitics
    Oxford Study Abroad Programme, University of Oxford [UG]
  • May – Jun 2018
    Morphology
    Oxford Study Abroad Programme, University of Oxford [UG]
  • Mar 2014
    Introduction to Mandarin
    Wadham Aspiration Days, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK
  • Jul 2012
    Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
    Bitesize Uni, Newcastle University, UK
  • Jul 2012
    Language Acquisition
    PARTNERS Programme, Newcastle University, UK

Teaching Training and Qualifications

  • Nov 2023
    Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
    AdvanceHE, UK
  • Dec 2023
    Newcastle Educational Practice Scheme
    Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom (at Descriptor 2 of the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework)
  • Jul 2018
    SEDA PDF Award
    Staff and Educational Development Association (aligned to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education, at Descriptor 1)
  • Oct 2016
    Developing Teaching and Learning
    Oxford Learning Institute, Humanities Division, University of Oxford
  • Oct 2016
    Training for Teaching Mature Students
    Continuing Education Department, University of Oxford
  • Oct 2015
    Preparation for Learning and Teaching
    Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford