Jane Stuart-Smith is a linguist and professor of sociolinguistics and phonetics at the University of Glasgow.
[2] In 1998 she established the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP),[3] which she is still co-directing.
Following this, she studied for a PhD in Historical Phonology at Oxford University, completing her dissertation in 1996.
[3] Stuart-Smith's research focusses on the interface of speech and society.
[5] Additionally, she is interested in media influence on language change, on which she taught a course at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute, hosted by the University of Chicago.