Special episode: “Really this girl ought to be going to something better”
08/26/22 • 32 min
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Over the past few years, as well as making Accentricity, I’ve been working on the Manchester Voices research project at Manchester Metropolitan University, with Rob Drummond, Holly Dann, Sarah Tasker and Erin Carrie.
As part of this work, we used oral history recordings to explore language change over time, and we’ve recently published a journal article about this work. We’re really proud of this article, but it’s not really that accessible to people who aren’t professional linguists, and we wanted to find a way to share our work with everyone who’s interested: so we made a podcast episode to act as a companion piece to this article.
If you want to read the article in full, you can find it here.
The oral history recordings we used for this research were provided by the British Library’s Archives+ as part of their Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. In this episode I speak to Dave Govier, the project manager for the North West Hub. We focused on a collection of interviews by journalist Alec Greenhalgh. The full length interviews are available in the Archives+ search room at Manchester Central Library, and you can also read the full descriptions online at the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue. The British Library collection reference is UAP001.
The Manchester Voices project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Thanks also to Dr Danielle Turton for her advice on our methodology for examining rhoticity.
Over the past few years, as well as making Accentricity, I’ve been working on the Manchester Voices research project at Manchester Metropolitan University, with Rob Drummond, Holly Dann, Sarah Tasker and Erin Carrie.
As part of this work, we used oral history recordings to explore language change over time, and we’ve recently published a journal article about this work. We’re really proud of this article, but it’s not really that accessible to people who aren’t professional linguists, and we wanted to find a way to share our work with everyone who’s interested: so we made a podcast episode to act as a companion piece to this article.
If you want to read the article in full, you can find it here.
The oral history recordings we used for this research were provided by the British Library’s Archives+ as part of their Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. In this episode I speak to Dave Govier, the project manager for the North West Hub. We focused on a collection of interviews by journalist Alec Greenhalgh. The full length interviews are available in the Archives+ search room at Manchester Central Library, and you can also read the full descriptions online at the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue. The British Library collection reference is UAP001.
The Manchester Voices project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Thanks also to Dr Danielle Turton for her advice on our methodology for examining rhoticity.
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Special episode: Talking About Voices
As well as making Accentricity, I work on the Manchester Voices project at Manchester Metropolitan University, with Rob Drummond and Holly Dann. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we ran a podcasting course and competition for schools called Talking About Voices. This is a special episode announcing the competition winners.
If you’re a teacher in a school in Greater Manchester, email [email protected] to ask about taking part in Talking About Voices round 2 in the coming school year. If you’re a pupil, or if you have a young person in your life who would love this, ask their teacher to get in touch.
If you live in Greater Manchester, there are various ways you can get involved in our research right now! Just go to www.manchestervoices.org to get started.
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Élaina's Story
This is the final episode (at least for now!) of The Moving Project. During the Covid-19 pandemic we worked with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and helping them to tell personal stories about the experience of moving from one place to another. The results of this course are a series of episodes: each one about a very different migration experience, and each person bringing their own style and personality. We hope you love them as much as we do.
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From Élaina:
I'm a crip Filipinx philosopher of disability currently working on a long-COVID research podcast. You can listen to my other podcasts Philosophy Casting Call, Bookshelf Remix, and Women of Questionable Morals on all platforms. You can find out more about my work on my website www.elainagauthiermamaril.com and attend my performance of "Zombies, Long COVID, and Crip Prophecies" for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at the Edinburgh Fringe:
8 Aug: https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/15597/making-great-dancerslong-covid/20230808/fringe
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