Project Team

The current ‘team’ is now back down to one person.

Prof Rob Drummond (Project Lead)

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Rob is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Met. He researches, teaches, and writes about the relationship between spoken language and identity. He publishes in this area, but does other public-facing work in various additional areas around language and society. He recently published a book for a general audience called You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak. As well as running Manchester Voices, Rob also looks after the Accentism Project. More about Rob here.

Previous core team members included:

Dr Caitlin Halfacre (Research Associate)

Dr Holly Dann (Research Associate)

Dr Sarah Tasker (Research Associate)

Dr Sadie Ryan (Research Associate)

Dr Erin Carrie (Co-Project Lead)

We also employed a team of Manchester Met students who worked on the project with us:

Brianna Ataman, William Boyes, Nick Brennand, Birce Cennetoglu, Bilie Christiansen, Chris Connor, Jay Curley, Polly Hodkinson, Zarah Matloob, Sophie Mayo, Labeeba Miah, Monifa Phillips, Connor O’Mara, Hollie Rochfort, Steph Shuttleworth, Aisha Sufi, Jack Taylor, Megan White.