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Jessica Wormald

Lecturer

Biography

I am a lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. I am currently leading a University PACE funded project to expand the range of services offered by the Forensic Speech Science team within the department.

My primary research interests are in forensic speech science and sociophonetics. My PhD investigated the development of contact varieties in the British cities Bradford and Leicester. I analysed speech from recordings of community members using auditory, acoustic, automatic and articulatory methods. I worked for six years as a forensic consultant at J P French Associates where I specialised in speaker comparison and transcription. Between July 2022  and September 2024 I worked as a PDRA on the ESRC funded Person-specific Automatic Speaker Recognition project at the University of York exploring speaker specific impacts on automatic speaker recognition performance (ES/W001241/1). Since my PhD, I have regularly taught on a variety of modules in sociophonetics and forensic speech science at the University of York as well as other workshops and training.

Career

  • Lecturer in Linguistics
    University of York (2024-)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate - Person-specific Automatic Speaker Recognition
    University of York (2021 - 2024)
     
  • Forensic Consultant (Speech science)
    J P French Associates (2016 - 2021)
     
  • PhD in Linguistics
    University of York (2012 - 2016)
     
  • MSc Forensic Speech Science
    University of York (2009 - 2010)
     
  • BA English Language and Linguistics
    University of York (2006 - 2009)

Contact details

Jessica Wormald
Lecturer
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

jessica.wormald@york.ac.uk