Dr Sandra Whiteside, BA, MSc, PhD.

Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2447
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : s.whiteside@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I obtained my BA (Hons) in Linguistics and Language Pathology from Essex University in 1986. I then completed an MSc in Computation at UMIST in 1987, before undertaking a PhD at the University of Leeds in 1988. During my PhD I undertook some part-time teaching at the University of Salford.

My PhD was completed shortly before my appointment to Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in 1992. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001, and to Reader in 2004.

Research interests

• Sex differences in speech input and output processing across the human life span.
• Models of speech encoding.
• Acquired apraxia of speech.
• Effects of hormones on speech and related behaviour.
• The role of genetics in speech input and output processing.

Professional activities

• Member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Virtual Research College for Management, Linguistics, Psychology and Education. May 1 2002 - April 30 2005.
• Regular Grant reviewer for the ESRC – Linguistics and Psychology.
• Rapporteur for the ESRC – Linguistics.
• Article Reviewer for the following international journals: Animal Behaviour, Applied Psycholinguistics, British Journal of Psychology, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Developmental Psychobiology, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology, Neuropsychology, Perceptual and Motor Skills.
• Member of WiTEC (Women in Science and Technology).

Current projects

• Effects of estrogen on speech and related behaviour. P E Cowell, S P Whiteside & J Rees.
  Ovarian Hormones, Speech and Related Behaviour. P E Cowell, S P Whiteside, M Wadnerkar, W Ledger.
• Ovarian Hormones, Speech and Related Behaviour. Phase 2. P E Cowell, S P Whiteside, M Wadnerkar, W Ledger, M Mather.
• Sex differences in speech input and output processing across the human life span.
  Speech characteristics of genetically-related individuals.

Collaborators

• Dr C Blank, Department of Neurology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Professor W Ledger, Academic Unit of Reproductive & Developmental Medicine, University of Sheffield.
• Dr M Mather, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
• Professor J Roberts, Dept of Economics and School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield.
• Dr J Rees, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield.
• PhD students: Mr Tetsuya Jo, Mr Frank Herrmann.

Key publications

1. Whiteside, S.P., Hanson, A. & Cowell, P.E. (2004). Hormones and temporal components of speech: sex differences and effects of menstrual cyclicity on speech. Neuroscience Letters, 367, 44-47. (available on White Rose Research Online)
2. Whiteside, S. P., Henry, L., & Dobbin, R. (2004). Sex differences in voice onset time: a developmental study of phonetic context effects in British English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 1179-1183. (available on White Rose Research Online)
3. Whiteside, S.P., & Rixon, E. (2003). Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech. Phonetica, 60, 273-297.
4. Whiteside, S. P. & Marshall, J. (2001). Developmental trends in voice onset time: some evidence for sex differences. Phonetica, 58, 196-210.
5. Whiteside, S. P. (2001). Sex-specific fundamental and formant frequency patterns in a cross-sectional study. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 464-478. (available on White Rose Research Online)

Last updated: 25 January 2012