Dr Melody Pattison

BEd (Melb), GDipArts (Melb), MAppLing (Monash), PhD (Ebor), FHEA

Publication

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Research

I have a wide range of research interests. My linguistic research has focused mainly on variation and change in Dutch; it has been published in Taal en Tongval and presented at various international conferences. More recently, I have also been researching assessment and feedback practices in Higher Education. I also collaborated on a project about using linguistic analysis in the diagnosis of dementia, which I spoke about on BBC Radio 4.

Teaching

I usually teach modules in the areas of phonetics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, and discourse. 

2024/2025:

Sounds of Speech

Sociolinguistics

Sound, Structure and Meaning

World Englishes

Developing English: History and Society

Biography

Honours and awards

• University of York Teaching Scholarship (2014)
• University of York Overseas Scholarship (2014)
• Monash University Dean's Recognition Award (2013)
• Monash University Dean's Recognition Award (2012)
• Monash University Dean's Recognition Award (2012)

Professional memberships

• Member of AALHE
• Member of the Philological Society
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of Golden Key International Honour Society

Academic positions

• 2020 - present: Lecturer, Cardiff University
• 2018 - 2020: Teacher, Cardiff University
• 2014 - 2017: Seminar tutor, University of York

Speaking engagements

• Detecting dementia using linguistic analysis. A Community Conversation on Dementia, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. (18 June 2025)
• Using the EAT Framework to enhance assessment literacy and feedback practices: A case study. AALHE, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. (28 May 2025)
• The effect of the EAT Framework on assessment literacy and feedback. Cardiff University Seminar Series, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (26 March 2025)
• Enhancing student outcomes by improving student assessment literacy. EAT-Erasmus Case Study Showcase 1 [online] (30 March 2022)
• Pidgins, creoles, dialects and minority languages - an overview. MFL Symposium, North London Collegiate School, London, UK [online] (6 October 2021)
• Regional variation of HUIS in the Achterhoek, Netherlands. Cardiff University Seminar Series, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (28 April 2021)
• Variation and change in four vowels of Achterhoeks. ICLaVE 10, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (28 June 2019)
• The Achterhoeks [y] and [u] vowels: Variation and attitude judgements. Sociolinguistics Circle, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands (31 March 2017)
• Variation in the Achterhoeks realisations of the Standard Dutch vowel /oey/. CamPhon Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (1 November 2016)
• Different realisations of /ɑ/ in Zelhem and Ruurlo. CLUL-LingMe, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (16 June 2016)
• Suburban and rural variation between [y] and [u] in Achterhoeks. GLAC 22, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland (20-22 May 2016)
• The /ɔ/ and /i/ vowels of Achterhoeks over a period of 35 years. UKLVC 10, University of York, York, UK (1-3 September 2015)
• Examining the /e/-/æ/ merger in the speech of Dutch migrants in Australia. Monash University Seminar Series, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia (March 2014)

Committees and reviewing

I have reviewed book proposals for Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press

Supervisions

Sociolinguistics, phonetics, language variation and change

Current supervision

Abdulrahman Alasmari