Bio
hello, Hej, Salü...
I'm a British/Swedish sociolinguist based at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Amongst other things, I'm interested in variationist sociophonetics, World Englishes and forensic phonetics, principally Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO).
Email: hannah.hedegard@unibe.ch
Address: Department of English, Universität Bern, Länggassstrasse 49, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Education
- MA (Hons) in Linguistics & Japanese, University of Edinburgh, UK (2008-2012)
- MSc in Forensic Speech Science, University of York, UK (2014-2015)
- PhD (summa cum laude) in Modern English Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland (2015-2019)
Employment
- Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme instructor, Kagoshima, Japan (2012-2014)
- Teaching and research assistant, English Department, University of Bern (2015-2020)
- Postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant, English Department, University of Bern (2020-2022)
- Lecturer in Language and Linguistics, English Department, University of Bern (2022-)