Our work has made national and international headlines. Below you can find out some more about our work in the media.
Please contact cilbury@ed.ac.uk for media enquiries.
- 2025, June, The National, New film reveals anti-Scottish bias at Edinburgh University
- 2025, May, The Sunday Times, Why teaching ‘Scottishness’ could help end snobbery at university
- 2025, April, STV News, Accent bias training at the University of Edinburgh
- 2025, April, BBC Radio Ulster, Edinburgh university & accent bias
- 2025, April, BBC Radio Scotland, Have you experienced bias because the way you speak?
- 2025, April, The Sunday Times, Edinburgh University lecturers trained on accent bias [front page]
- 2025, April, The Telegraph, Edinburgh University lecturers given accent bias training
- 2025, April, News Talk, Do we need to do more to tackle accent discrimination?
- 2025, April, Times Radio, accent bias
- 2025, April, LBC Radio, accent bias
- 2025, April, the Guardian, Is my Scottish accent really the problem – or is it just your English ears?
- 2025, March, the Times, March, Edinburgh University tackles accent bias amid claims of snobbery
- 2024, December, Teachers Talk Radio, How should we speak? Accent bias and linguistic discrimination
- 2024, November, the Times, Edinburgh University issues warning telling students not to be snobs
- 2024, November, BBC News, Edinburgh University warns students not to be ‘snobs’
- 2024, August, the Dispatch, The Birmaissance: Is the Brum accent finally getting the respect it deserves?
- 2024, August, BBC Radio 4, Anti-Social: Language and accent bias
- 2024, April, BBC Morning Live, Accent bias and linguistic discrimination
- 2024, April, Edinburgh Live, Edinburgh student feels she has to change her accent after being called ‘rough’
- 2023, October, The Tab, ‘Who’s out danite?’: Northern Irish students on accent discrimination at Edinburgh Uni
- 2023, March, Edinburgh Live, Edinburgh student says people mock his accent as he’s not from a ‘posh school’
- 2023, Feb, The Tab, What we learn from listening to Edinburgh University’s state school students
- 2022, Oct BBC News radio, Accent Bias and discrimination
- 2020, Feb Language Matters Podcast, Accent bias and discrimination
- 2020, Feb Catch yerself on Podcast, How does accent affect your future?