News
2010 Conference Information (added 3rd January 2010)
IAFPA's 2010 Annual Conference will be hosted by the Department of Phonetics at the University of Trier from Sunday 18th to Wednesday 21st July. The conference website is now available at http://iafpa.uni-trier.de and it contains all the conference details. Please check this site regularly for the latest information.
2009 Conference Information (added 23rd October 2008)
The website www.ling.cam.ac.uk/iafpa/ has been set up to provide information about the 2009 IAFPA Annual Conference. Please check this site regularly for the latest information.
Conference Information (added 29th September 2008)
The 2008 conference in Lausanne was a great success and very well attended. It is hoped that most of the presentation will be available to download from this site soon. The 2009 conference will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge from Monday 3rd to Wednesday 5th August.
2008 Conference Programme (added 15th July 2008)
The 2008 Conference Programme has now been added to the conference pages.
Voices and Identity Workshop (added 27th May 2008)
The DyViS Project team from Cambridge University are running a Voice and Identity Workshop on Monday 7th July 2008. This is a 'outreach' day aimed at professionals from fields such as law enforcement (e.g. detectives, investigators, scientific support officers), law (e.g. judges, magistrates, barristers) and criminology. Registration is now open until Friday 13th June. Speakers and contributors are Francis Nolan, Kirsty McDougall, Gea de Jong, Toby Hudson, Martin Duckworth and Peter French. Further information about the workshop is available on the workshop webpage.
IAFPA 2008 Conference - Extended Submission Deadline (added 27th May 2008)
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the conference has been extended to 1st June 2008. Please see the 2008 conference page for more details.
First International Eurasian Congress of Forensic Sciences (added 23rd May 2008)
The First International Eurasian Congress of Forensic Sciences titled 'Fight Against Terrorism: Interactive Relationships Among Forensic Disciplines' is being held in Istanbul, Turkey on 8th to 11th October 2008. Papers are invited on a wide range of topics including forensic phonetics and acoustics. IAFPA President Prof Peter French will be running a workshop on 'Identification of Speakers in Criminal Recordings', assisted by Burcu Önder, Linguist, Council of Forensic Medicine, Turkey.
IAFPA 2008 Conference Information (added 7th April 2008)
Information about the IAFPA 2008 annual conference, including the call for papers, has now been added to the site. The information can be found on the 2008 Conference page and its associated pages.
IAFPA 2008 Conference Information (added 24th January 2008)
Some preliminary information about the IAFPA's 2008 Annual Conference, including dates, has now been added to the 2008 Conference Page.
Resolutions (added 2nd December 2007)
At the IAFPA 2007 Annual Conference two resolutions were passed at the AGM. These have now been added to the website on the resolutions page. The first concerns analysis of language and speech for the determination of national identity, whilst the second presents the IAFPA's position in relation to voiceprints.
Conference Information (added 18th August 2007)
The 2007 IAFPA Conference in Plymouth was very successful. Most of the presentations are now available on the 2007 conference programme page. Further information including the venue for next year is now on the conference page.
IAFPA 2007 Conference Programme (added 12th July 2007)
The conference programme has now been added to the website. Abstracts are available for each paper by clicking on the title.
IAFPA 2007 Conference Information (added 19th March 2007)
Information about the IAFPA 2007 annual conference has now been added to the site. The information can be found on the 2007 Conference page and its associated pages.
IAFPA 2007 Conference Dates (added 27th October 2006)
The IAFPA 2007 annual conference will take place from Sunday 22nd July 2007 (reception and registration) until Wednesday 25th July 2007 in the Desmond Tutu Centre of The College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth, UK. Further information will be added to the conference page when it is available.
Journal Articles Online (added 21st September 2006)
Articles from the current and previous issues of The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law are available online at http://www.atypon-link.com/EPL/loi/sll (link opens in new window) until further notice. A username and password is not currently required to access the articles.
New IAFPA Website (added 25th August 2006)
This is the new IAFPA website. Several new pages have been added and the styling of the site has been updated. Please e-mail any comments or suggestions to the webmaster at webmaster@iafpa.net.
IAFPA Conferences (added 25th August 2006)
This year's conference in Gothenburg was a great success. Further information about this and the 2007 meeting is on the conference page, together with a new page on previous conferences.
Journal Publisher (added 10th January 2006)
The IAFPA journal 'The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law' now has a new publisher, Equinox. Further information about the journal is available on this website on the journal page and on the publisher's website.