People
Professor Helen Fraser
Director
Helen is the founding Director of the Hub. She has a strong background in linguistics, phonetics and speech perception. Over the past twenty years, she has pioneered a new interdisciplinary approach to forensic transcription, with a major focus on theoretically grounded solutions that deliver needed practical results, i.e. ensuring that juries understand forensic audio evidence accurately.
Eleanor Kettle
PhD Student
Eleanor is undertaking her PhD on transcription of forensic recordings featuring non-mainstream varieties of English, under the supervision of Professor Helen Fraser, Dr Olga Maxwell and Dr Debbie Loakes. She also has a valued role as a part-time research assistant for the Hub.
Hub associates
Indispensable advisors
- Professor Lesley Stirling, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
- Professor Diana Eades, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England
- Professor Marilyn McMahon, Dean of Law, Deakin University
- Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, School of Psychological Sciences University of Newcastle
- The Honourable Peter Gray, Retired Justice of the Australian Federal Court
- Professor Gary Edmond, School of Law, Society & Criminology, University of New South Wales
- Professor Kate Burridge, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Monash University
- Professor Stephen Cordner, Victoria Institute of Forensic Medicine
- Professor Peter French, Forensic Speech Science, University of York
Hub friends and collaborators
- Alex Bowen, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
- Dr Kate Haworth, Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
- Dr Miranda Lai, Translating and Interpreting, RMIT University
- Professor Georgina Heydon, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
- Dr Cindy Schneider, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England
- Dr Laura Smith-Khan, School of Law, University of New England
- Dr Debbie Loakes, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne (former Research Fellow with the Hub)
- Professor Paul Foulkes, Forensic Speech Science, University of York