CV

Education


University of Cambridge 2020-2021 MPhil by Thesis in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

  • Thesis is on perceived attractiveness and trustworthiness of the voice, using pitch level, pitch span, speech rate and accent of the speakers as independent variables, and considering the indexical information of the listeners

  • Supplementary courses taken include Introduction to Natural Language Syntax and Parsing from the Computer Science faculty, multivariate statistics training, a research skills seminar course, and a seminar course on general linguistic theory, and a seminar course in phonetics

University of Cambridge 2017-2020 Linguistics BA (Hons) Class II.i, overall score: 69.75

  • My final year dissertation “On the perceptual significance of acoustic features on vocal attractiveness in Southern British English”, attained a first class with distinction (83), inspired by taking the Computational Linguistics and Phonetics courses in my second year.

  • Part II papers taken: Phonetics, Phonological Theory, Morphology, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics of the Romance Languages, Linguistic Theory


Bryanston School, Dorset 2012-2017

  • Academic and All-Round Scholarships; School Prefect; Harvard Book Prize

  • IB Diploma: 40 points overall, HL 776 in Maths (Statistics and Probability option), Spanish and German respectively; 765 in Physics, SL English Literature and Psychology; Grade A in my Extended Essay in Linguistics.

  • GCSEs: 12 A*s and 1 A


Previous Employment and Work Experience

  • Research Intern at University of Cambridge Computer Lab with the Natural Language and Information Processing team, looking into pronunciation error prediction using machine learning - 10 weeks, June-August 2019

  • Writing phonetic transcriptions for use in research at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge - June 2019

  • English Teacher with PINK teaching English and Maths to children in China online

  • Private English Tutor

  • Revision tutoring for Common Entrance and GCSE: maths, languages, science June 2018-January 2020

  • Conservation work at Pacuare turtle sanctuary, Costa Rica: night patrols, data collection July 2016

  • Office work at Acuity Associates: data management, employment profiling, 2 weeks 2015

Experience and Skills

  • Phonetic transcriptions using IPA and ASCII formats

  • Voice analysis and resynthesis in Praat

  • Python and Tensorflow

  • Mac OS command line tools

  • Git

  • Stata and SPSS for statistical analysis

  • IT Functional Skills Level 2

  • UK Linguistics Olympiad Gold

  • UK Maths Olympiad; UK Maths Challenge Gold; UK Team Maths Challenge National Finalists

  • School Debating Team, School General Knowledge Team

  • Competent French (as well as Spanish and German from school)

Leadership and Positions of Responsibility

  • Cambridge University Mixed Lacrosse Social Secretary 2020-2021

  • Founder and President (2019) of the St John’s College Linguistics Society

  • Sports Services and Societies Officer 2019 for St John’s College Junior Students’ Committee

  • Good Lad Initiative workshop facilitator

  • Mixed Lacrosse Captain for St John’s College 2020-2021

  • Athletics Captain for St John’s College 2018-2019

  • Rowing – coach for college novice crew 2018

  • Committee of St John’s Jazz Band 2018-2020

  • Adapted and directed Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution” (2016)

Extra-curricular Achievements

  • Harvard Book Prize for extra-curricular contributions to school on top of academic achievement

  • Guitar Grade 8 Distinction (June 2017)

  • Classical Guitar Grade 8 Merit (November 2015)

  • Choral Award to St John’s Voices, St John’s College

  • Wilson Reading Prize 2019 winner


References available on request