Alex Mepham

PhD Student &
Award-Winning Writer

Alex Mepham is a PhD student investigating how background noise impacts speech understanding.Alex is also an award-winning writer, receiving
the Northern Debut Award for Poetry
by New Writing North in 2023.Alex currently lives in York, UK.

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Alex Mepham

PhD Student

Alex Mepham is a PhD student investigating how background noise impacts speech understanding.Current project: Cognitive Listening: Investigating speech perception in noise within a cognitive framework.
(funded by the Leverhulme Trust).

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Publications:

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2022). The time-course of linguistic interference during native and non-native speech-in-speech listening. J Acoust Soc Am. 152(2), 954-969. Link

  • Mepham, A., McGarrigle, R., Rakusen, L., & Mattys, S. L. (2021, preregistration). Listening effort cost from informational interference. (OSF Preregistration: Link)

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2020). Release in linguistic masking changes over time: Differences between native and non-native listeners. J Acoust Soc Am, 148(4), 2721. Link

Presentations:

  • Mepham, A. (2022, 01 Nov). The adaptation time-course of speech perception and listening effort in noise. Invited Speaker at the Inaugural Psycholinguistics@York Event, University of York, UK.

  • Mepham, A., McGarrigle, R., Knight, S., Rakusen, L., & Mattys, S. L. (2022, 09 Sep). Trade-offs between performance and effort during lis-tening in adverse conditions. Poster presentation at the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), York, UK.

  • Mepham, A., McGarrigle, R., Knight, S., Rakusen, L., & Mattys, S. L. (2022, 07 Jul). Trade-offs between performance and effort during lis-tening in adverse conditions. Poster presentation at the 6th Université Franco-Allemande Deutsche-Französische Hochschule Summer School: Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception, Chorin, Germany.

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2021, 24 Aug). Changes in informational interference over time: Differences between native and non-native speakers. Short talk at the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark (Online).

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2021, 29 Jun). Changes in informational interference over time: Differences between native and non-native speakers. Spoken presentation at the Postgraduate Research Conference, University of York, York (Online).

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2021, 6-7 Jan). Changes in release from linguistic masking over time: Differences between native and non-native speakers. Poster presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, UCL, London, UK (Online).

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2020, 10 Dec). Release in linguistic masking changes over time: differences between native and non-native listeners. Poster presented at the Acoustical Society of America Acoustics Virtually Everywhere Conference (Online).

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2020, 21 Nov). An analysis of the time-course of release from informational masking in native and non-native speakers. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 61st Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, USA (Online).

  • Mepham, A., Bi, Y., & Mattys, S. L. (2020, 10 Nov). Changes in release from linguistic masking over time: Differences between native and non-native speakers. White Rose Doctoral Training Program (WRDTP) Welcome Event, WRDTP (Online). // First Prize in Poster Competition

Public Speaking:

  • Mattys, S., McGarrigle, R., Knight, S., Mepham, A., & Rakusen, L. (2021, 11 Jun). The Listening Brain. Online talk as part of the York Festival of Ideas, York, UK (Online).

  • Mepham, A. (2020, 09 Dec). Studying Psychology and the Science of Hearing: Part II. Invited Speaker as part of the Sixth Form Psychology Seminar series, Simon Langton Girl's Grammar School, Canterbury, UK (Online).

  • Mepham, A. (2020, 18 Nov). Studying Psychology and the Science of Hearing: Part I. Invited Speaker as part of the Sixth Form Psychology Seminar series, Simon Langton Girl's Grammar School, Canterbury, UK (Online).

  • Mepham, A. (2020, 13 Mar). The Science of Hearing. Talk given as part of the York Next Step series, University of York, UK.

  • Mepham, A. (2020, 08 Feb). The Science of Hearing. Talk given at YorNight 2020, York Barbican, UK.

  • Mepham, A. (2019, 08 Dec). The Science of Hearing. Mini-lecture given as part of the Roots to Success series, University of York, UK.

Alex Mepham

Writer

Alex Mepham mainly writes poems
but also translates poems
and sometimes writes non-poems

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Contact / Book for Events

Please find LinkedIn & Twitter
contact details on the homepage.Alternatively, send a message to Alex at:am2050 [at] york [dot] ac [dot] uk

If you would like to book me for an event:

  • Please refer to the Society of Authors guidelines on rates and fees.

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  • Please refer to my [Access Rider](coming soon) detailing my access requirements.

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