Allen Hirson

Senior lecturer - acoustic phonetics

Academic Qualifications

MA in Phonetics, 1991, UCL
Certificate in Experimental Phonetics, 1989, UCL.

Teaching Responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Acoustic Phonetics

Research Interests

British English ('Streetalk'); the reliability of lip-reading evidence in British courts; and details of r- pronunciation in British English.

Administration

Member of Senate and University Strategy & Policy group, as well as Director of City University Forensic Centre. Admissions Tutor, Module Leader, Director of the Speech Acoustics Laboratory. Chair of Departmental Laboratory Team, and Learning Resources Committee.

External Activity

Specialist in the area of forensic phonetics. Forensic phonetics is the analysis of evidential speech recordings for the Courts.