Dr Maria Cairney
Lecturer
Speech and Language Therapy
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am a HCPC-registered Speech and Language Therapist with a PhD in Phonetics. I currently work as a Lecturer in the Speech and Language Therapy team.
I am interested in Speech Sound Disorders and multilingualism, studied via acoustic phonetics, speech perception studies, and ultrasound tongue imaging. I am open to PGR supervision.
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Prize And Awards
- Meritorious Poster Submission
- Recipient
- 21/8/2023
- Best presentation in the Ultrasound session in SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting
- Recipient
- 15/6/2022
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Publications
- Instrumental articulatory techniques investigating lingual variability in typically developing children: A scoping review
- Smith Amy, Kuschmann Anja, Lawson Eleanor, Cairney Maria, Cleland Joanne
- Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2486626
- Clinicians’ perspectives on using ultrasound visual biofeedback for research and practice with people with cleft palate ± cleft lip
- Cleland Joanne, McCluskey Robyn, Cairney Maria, Crampin Lisa, Campbell Linsay
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656251322279
- Quantitative results of SonoSpeech Cleft Pilot : mixed-methods pilot randomized control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention for children with cleft palate ± cleft lip
- Cairney Maria, Crampin Lisa, Campbell Linsay, Cleland Joanne
- Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2025)
- A mixed-methods pilot randomized control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention for children with cleft palate ± cleft lip : parents’ and children's perspectives
- Cleland Joanne, McCluskey Robyn, Dokovova Marie, Crampin Lisa, Campbell Linsay
- International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders Vol 60 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.13144
- Experiences of Telephone Communication with Difficult to Understand Speech
- Dokovova Marie, Rai Harleen, Fuzesi Peter
- (2024)
- Results from a pilot randomised control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention
- Dokovova Marie, Crampin Lisa, Campbell Linsay, Cleland Joanne
- CFSGBI Scientific Conference 2024 (2024)
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Professional Activities
- International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 2025
- Introduction to using Articulate Assistant Advanced for tongue imaging research
- Consultant
- 6/12/2023
- Introduction to using Articulate Assistant Advanced for tongue imaging research
- Consultant
- 25/10/2023
- Using STAR
- Participant
- 9/5/2023
- StrathWide 2023: The University of Strathclyde Researcher conference
- Chair
- 28/4/2023
- British Science Week public engagement
- Presenter
- 18/3/2023
Projects
- Introduction to Articulate Instruments Advanced for recording and analysis
- Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Dokovova, Marie (Principal Investigator)
- Hands on activities and demonstrations of the AAA software facilitated in Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- 25-Jan-2023 - 26-Jan-2023
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Contact
Dr
Maria
Cairney
Lecturer
Speech and Language Therapy
Email: maria.v.cairney@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted