Kate Lightfoot

ORCID: 0000-0002-0141-0293
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Research Areas
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

Bradford Royal Infirmary
2023

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2023

Anglia Ruskin University
2020

Lancaster University
2019

<ns3:p>Background Adolescence is a critical period of development which paves the way for longer term health trajectories and lifestyles. Understanding variety factors influence adolescent crucial to developing interventions services have potential across life-course. Collecting representative, longitudinal data with adolescents at scale difficult. Secondary school settings offer an excellent opportunity collect such adolescents, however, there are inherent challenges in working these...

10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23534.1 preprint EN cc-by Wellcome Open Research 2025-01-21

This study analyses the time-varying acoustics of laterals and their adjacent vowels in Manchester Liverpool English. Generalized additive mixed-models (GAMMs) are used for quantifying formant data, which allows modelling non-linearities acoustic time series while simultaneously speaker word level variability data. These models compared to single time-point lateral vowel targets order determine what analysing dynamics can tell about dialect variation speech acoustics. The results show that...

10.1121/1.5089886 article EN The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2019-02-01

Bradford is multi-ethnic and one of the most deprived districts in United Kingdom where around a quarter children live low-income families. Born (BiB) has followed lives 13,776 born district between 2007 2011. Children birth cohort are now entering adolescence, next phase research - Age Wonder (AoW) will be whole city capturing experiences 30,000 adolescents progressing into young adulthood. This protocol focuses on component AoW programme: qualitative longitudinal (QLR). The study gather...

10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18096.2 preprint EN cc-by Wellcome Open Research 2023-03-15

<ns3:p>Born in Bradford (BiB) has followed the lives of 13,776 children born district between 2007 and 2011. Children birth cohort are now entering adolescence, next phase research - Age Wonder (AoW) will be a whole city capturing experiences 30,000 adolescents progressing into young adulthood. This protocol focuses on one component AoW programme: qualitative longitudinal (QLR). The study gather depth detailed accounts from sub-sample 100 people across four major priorities: personal life;...

10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18096.1 preprint EN cc-by Wellcome Open Research 2022-10-31

This paper investigates intonation in the urban dialect of Liverpool, Scouse. Scouse is reported to be part a group dialects north UK where rising contours declaratives are traditional aspect dialect. typologically unusual and has not been subject detailed previous research. Here, we present such an analysis comparison with Manchester, city less than 40 miles from Liverpool but noticeably different prosody. Our confirms reports that most common realization for specifically low rise final...

10.1177/0023830920969735 article EN cc-by-nc Language and Speech 2020-11-21

<ns4:p>Bradford is multi-ethnic and one of the most deprived districts in United Kingdom where around a quarter children live low-income families. Born Bradford (BiB) has followed lives 13,776 born district between 2007 2011. Children birth cohort are now entering adolescence, next phase research - Age Wonder (AoW) will be whole city capturing experiences 30,000 adolescents progressing into young adulthood. This protocol focuses on component AoW programme: qualitative longitudinal (QLR). The...

10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18096.3 preprint EN cc-by Wellcome Open Research 2023-10-10
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