About
Prof. Hugo Quené is a Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Research in the Humanities at Utrecht University, affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. His research focuses on quantitative research methods, self-monitoring in speech, phonetics, and digital humanities. He is director of the Centre for Digital Humanities and co-leads the FAIR Data and Software theme in the Open Science Office.
- Education: MA in Phonetics (1984), PhD in Linguistics (1989), both from Utrecht University.
- Administrative roles: Director of Education (2014–2019), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Indiana University (2001–2002).
Research interests: Quené’s work spans quantitative methods, speech errors, phonetic analysis, and open science. He emphasizes reproducibility, FAIR data principles, and the application of statistical tools like R and JASP. His research often explores cross-linguistic phonetic variation and the impact of prosody on discourse interpretation.
Key contributions include developing the Utrecht Corpus of Speech Errors and the longitudinal UCU English Accents project. His textbook Quantitative Methods and Statistics is widely used in academic settings.
Labs/Teams: Active in the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) and leads the Utrecht Platform for Applied Data Science. Collaborates with the Clariah-NL supervisory board on digital infrastructure for humanities research.
