Eleanor Drake

Dr Eleanor Drake is a Lecturer at the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University. Her research focuses on speech production, language comprehension, stuttering, and decolonization in psychology. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and has been awarded the International Phonetic Association Student Award (2015) and Northern Digital Excellence Award. Her work integrates ultrasound imaging to study speech dynamics and employs autoethnography to explore institutional decolonization. She supervises doctoral projects on smell retraining and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Key areas include articulatory consequences of prediction during comprehension, perfectionism in stuttering, and cross-language interference in speech production.

Education: PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

Research Interests: Speech-Motor Activation, Ultrasound Imaging, Decolonization in Academia, and Psycholinguistic Models of Prediction.

Awards:

• International Phonetic Association Student Award (ICPhS 2015)
• Northern Digital Excellence Award
• EPSRC PhD funding

Grants and Funding: Supported by EPSRC and ESRC.

Advising: Supervises PhD students Emily Spencer (smell retraining program) and Muriel Chaudhri (antibiotic-resistant bacteria).

Labs/Teams: Member of the Centre for Mind and Creativity.