Current PhD Candidate at the brand new Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technology at the University of Sheffield, working on the linguistic perspectives of automatic cognitive decline detection and prediction in speech with a focus on disfluencies and conversation analysis of human-digital doctor interactions.Particular interest in EDI for speech technology in clinical settings. Former MSc student at the University of York in Forensic Speech Science. BA(Hons) University of Westminster in Arabic and Linguistics. Twitter: @MegThomasLing