Natalie Braber

Natalie Braber is a Professor of Linguistics at the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, specializing in sociolinguistics, language variation, and dialect preservation. She leads the Linguistics MA (by research) program and supervises PhD students on diverse topics including cultural heritage, forensic linguistics, and language impairments. Her work on 'Pit Talk' in East Midlands coal mining communities has created cultural resources like the Celebrating Notts Language website.

• Department: Humanities
• Email: natalie.braber@ntu.ac.uk

Research Focus:

• Primary: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Perceptual Dialectology
• Applied: Forensic Voices, Language Impairment Studies
• Cultural: Language Heritage Preservation, Mining Community Documentation

Notable Projects include AHRC-funded 'Hidden Histories' (2014-2017) and Heritage Lottery Fund-supported 'Pit Talk' documentation (2017). Collaborations span Psychology, Law, and Cultural Heritage sectors, including work on earwitness testimony accuracy and lexical analysis of domestic violence reporting.

External Contributions:

• Former Examiner at University of Hertfordshire
• British Library advisor for 'Voices of the UK' project
• Organizer of Northern Englishes Workshop (2012) and 'What's Nott to Like' (2013)
• Media expert on regional dialects and linguistic analysis