项目介绍

2021年8月12日

Overview

The department combines basic research into the mechanisms of speech and hearing with applications to speech technology and hearing impairment, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to this work including Linguistics and Experimental Psychology. Our methodologies include behavioural experimentation; neuroimaging, neurostimulation and neurophysiology; acoustic and articulatory measurement of speech production; and computational modelling and machine learning. We test early development (infants and children) as well as normal adults and aging; normal hearing, hearing impairment, and speech in noise; first and second language learning and bilingualism; comparisons across languages and accents; and evolution of sound systems over time.

Research areas

• Speech perception and production from infancy through later adulthood
• EEG, TMS and fMRI investigations of speech perception, production and hearing
• Hearing impairment and auditory prostheses for speech communication
• Speaker recognition and paralinguistics
• Sociophonetic analyses of accent change and development
• Second-language learning and bilingualism
• Quantitative modelling of tone, intonation, and rhythm
• Models of the relationship between speech articulation and acoustics
• Structural and kinematic characteristics of speech production

More information can be found on the department website: Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences MPhil/PhD

About this degree

Additional costs

For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk. Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support & Wellbeing team.

Funding

Applications for UCL competitive funding must arrive by late December/early January for entry in September/October the following year. See Graduate Research (GRS) and Overseas Research Scholarships (ORS).

You are strongly advised to contact and work with your potential supervisor when completing your application for funding. ESRC funding is available for three-year MPhil/PhD scholarships and for 1+3 scholarships that include a year of Master’s study.

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.

Careers

Recent graduates have secured academic teaching and research positions in speech, hearing science, and phonetics at UK and international universities, and at leading companies in the speech technology industry.

Employability

Our programme is distinctive in terms of the depth and variety of approaches to speech research, which gives our graduates varied employment opportunities in teaching, research, health and industry.

Networking

We have strong collaborative links with external research groups, clinicians, and industry. Students are encouraged to attend and present at departmental seminars, as well as participate in international conferences and workshops.

Why study this degree at UCL?

SHaPS focuses on speech research within an interdisciplinary context, with strong links to UCL Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Experimental Psychology, the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and UCL Ear Institute, as well as international and industrial collaborations. The department shares a newly refurbished building and state-of-the-art laboratories, including facilities for adult and infant EEG, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and eye tracking.

Department: Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences

What our students and staff say

Staff review

“The environment at UCL for research in my field (neuroscience) is unparalleled. Across UCL, there is not only tremendous breadth in neuroscience (molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, computational), but also amazing depth. UCL’s neuroscience community is so large and so diverse that even after 10 years at UCL I am still discovering colleagues here whose work is somehow directly relevant to my own.”

DR JENNIFER LINDEN

I supervise PhD and MSc students from the Ear Institute and also from the departments of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology; Cell and Developmental Biology; Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences; and the Institute of Ophthalmology. I also teach topics related to hearing on MSc and BSc modules in many of these departments.
Reader in NeuroscienceStudent review

“I am a second language learner of English; so learning about how we learn second languages and how people understand accented speech has always been a source of inspiration to me. UCL has amazing researchers and teaching staff as well as research equipment and facilities, which has enabled me to carry out great research. “

JIEUN SONG

Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

Application and next steps

Applications

Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.

This programme requires two references. Further information regarding references can be found in our How to apply section.

Application deadlines

All applicants30 July 2021

Applications for competitive funding awarded by UCL must arrive by late December or early January for a September/October start. If other sources of funding are being considered, it is still in your interest to apply by January, but later applications can sometimes be considered. Applications should be made as soon as possible, and not later than 30 June for entry in September/October.

For more information see our Applications page.

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