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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ll be on BBC local radio in the South (Berks, Ox and Solent) at around 10:15 am UK time on Sunday 4 October chatting about accents. Tune in!

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s it like being a first generation undergraduate student in our department? Listen to this week’s First In Family podcast to find out! Featuring podcast student partner Grace Sutton. Listen - and subscribe! - wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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FiF Podcast Episode 9: Grace Sutton

Podcast Episode · First in Family Podcast · 2 October · 41min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What is a dramaturg? Join me in conversation with Dermot Daly on the First In Family podcast to find out! Available on Spotify, Podbean and the Apple link here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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FiF Podcast Episode 8: Dermot Daly

Podcast Episode · First in Family Podcast · 18 September · 51min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Listen to me on BBC Word of Mouth talking to Michael Rosen about bias against women’s voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Word of Mouth - Bias against women's voices - BBC Sounds

Michael Rosen talks to phonetician Jane Setter about women's voices.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Join me in conversation with Dan Skelson, First Gen student and now Chemistry lecturer at the University of Reading, on the First in Family podcast! Here’s the Apple link. Also available on Spotify and Podbean. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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FiF Podcast Episode 7: Dan Skelson

Podcast Episode · First in Family Podcast · 4 September · 44min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I implore any academic colleagues - or any whose lives are impacted by metrics - to listen to this episode of the Nudge podcast. Superb! Apple link: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Are metrics controlling your life?

Podcast Episode · Nudge · 31 August · 35min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In Episode 6 of the First in Family podcast - out now! - Jane is in conversation with @UniofReading.bsky.social Digital Humanities Officer Abbie Tibbot. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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FiF Podcast Episode 6 with Jane Setter and Abbie Tibbot

Podcast Episode · First in Family Podcast · 21 August · 58min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I love that they have gaffer tape in the 23rd century. LLAP 🖖

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The next episode of the First in Family podcast has dropped! Join me in conversation with Professor Alan Smith, discussing first generation students transitions, degrees in youth work … and the Rhubarb Triangle! Find us wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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FiF Podcast Episode 5 with Jane Setter and Alan Smith

Podcast Episode · First in Family Podcast · 7 August · 51min

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Lots going on here, including accent prejudice, and the availability of places for students from the north of England to “stay local” when (northern) English Russell Group universities attract a large percentage of high-achieving students from the south. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southerners

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you’d like to hear my musings on RP and creaky voice, you’ll enjoy this podcast! morejamtomorrow.com/episode/rp

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If all goes to plan, I’ll be on Times Radio at 11:20pm GMT tonight (2 Nov) on the topic of “the increasing number of (British) children adopting American slang and accent as a result of the media they consume”.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Event: Conference Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World. Location: University of Reading, UK. Date: 12-14 January 2026. Early bird registration ending 2 November 2025! bhlmultilingualism.wixsite.com/2026

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Home | BHL UK 2026

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Thrilled that The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, published barely a month ago, has won its first award: Curtin University's "Publication of the Year"! 🏆 (Co-editor Sender Dovchin works at Curtin.) 🎉 Get yours here 😉: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I’m at that point in a writing project today when my brain seems to have suddenly turned to mush 🤪 (obviously not, or I wouldn’t be writing this). Having a cuppa often helps reset things. ☕️ And I’m getting some cat attention, which is always welcome! And maybe a little too distracting. 🐈‍⬛

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Unboxing video! My copies of the Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with Sender Dovchin and Vijay Ramjattan, have finally arrived! Available at all good booksellers. 😊 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Honoured to interview Prof David Crystal for the 60th Anniversary of Linguistics at Reading! View the entire conversation here. youtu.be/j63j2OjVgmI?...

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David Crystal in Conversation: Celebrating 60 Years of Linguistics at the University of Reading

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Out now! The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice, co-edited with Sender Dovchin and Vijay Ramjattan, is available here and from all good booksellers: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Listen out for me on Times Radio at about 08.35 UK time on Wednesday morning (24 September), when I'll be talking about Taylor Swift's voice (accent and pitch).

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A wonderful picture of tonight’s moon, emerging from the eclipse, taken by my partner John.

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

😛 @janesetter.bsky.social looks at tongue piercings & lisps... 📖 Learn all about it in our Autumn issue, available at babelzine.co.uk

Giving voice a voice: Lisps, groovy whistles, and piercing sounds

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Very proud to be University Orator at our degree ceremonies this year.

A picture of Professor Jane Setter in University of Reading PhD robes which are wine red with a cream lining. She is also wearing a black academic cap and a turquoise academic stole which shows membership of the Association of National Teaching Fellows. She is standing outside with a tree in the background.

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Simone Sprenger @simonesprenger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thank you, Jane, for a great keynote lecture at TABU dag today! @tabudag.bsky.social @janesetter.bsky.social

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🪴 What if your Bonsai just needs a good talking to? 📖 In Summer's Babel, @janesetter.bsky.social looks at the possible restorative effects of plant-voice 🏪 Buy issues & subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

Babel's Giving Voice a Voice: Good (indoor gardening) vibrations

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Turns out the youth of today refers to fashion as “drip”. This seems to derive from describing people who wear a lot of items from top fashion houses as “dripping with it”. Every day is a school day.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Owing to this morning’s sad news, this is not going ahead.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If all goes to plan, I’ll be on @bbc5live.bsky.social at around 10:30am tomorrow (21/04/2025) contributing to a discussion about names.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Warm Easter wishes to all who celebrate it!

A milk chocolate bunny is attacked by a white chocolate face hugger which has emerged from a dark chocolate egg in a scene reminiscent of the science fiction film Alien.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We’ve got a great line-up this year! See you there.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Things that don’t work in British English (sadly - I’d like one of these!).

T-shirt showing the starship Enterprise in a Van Gogh style background with the legend “To Boldly Gogh”.

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thank heavens for WD40 and my dad’s long nose pliers. Nuff said!

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

The Beatles’ “Yesterday” is actually about regret over accent shaming? Wow. Just … wow. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/f...

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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

New platform, new endeavour … People often tell me my voice is soothing, so I’ve done a YouTube thing. Feedback gratefully accepted. youtu.be/-VvoSqXWj5M?...

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