Ben Gibb-Reid
Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science

Profile

Biography

Ben joined the department in 2024 as a Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science. His research interests are across forensic phonetics, discourse-pragmatic variation and change, and sociolinguistics. Ben has primarily conducted research on the phonetic variation found in frequent words. He has published work which investigates the viability of using the phonetics of discourse-pragmatic markers (specifically like, yeah and just) as speaker discriminants, and phonetic analyses of words against discourse-pragmatic and phonological factors. Prior to the present role, Ben undertook his PhD in Linguistics at York, and worked as a Research Associate on various sociolinguistic and phonetic projects. He also holds an MSc in Forensic Speech Science and a BA in Linguistics from the University of York.

Career

• Lecturer
  University of York (2024-)
• PhD in Linguistics
  University of York (2021-24)
• MSc in Forensic Speech Science
  University of York (2017-18)
• BA in Linguistics
  University of York (2014-17)