Finding & using your academic voice

Ackroyd, Rebekah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7557-9985 (2025) Finding & using your academic voice. Research Intelligence, 162 (Spring). pp. 38-39.

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Abstract

Early in my career as a secondary school teacher, I learned that if I wanted to gain the attention of my class it was more effective to lower the pitch of my voice, rather than raise the volume. Lowering the pitch cuts through the noise, making our voices more resonant, and enables the sound to reach the back of the room. In the classroom, after a few attempts, this adjustment is easily mastered. The challenge of finding and pitching one’s academic voice is a little trickier but is of equal necessity.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Research Intelligence
Publisher:	British Educational Research Association (BERA)
Departments:	Institute of Education > MA Programmes (Education)
Additional Information:	Rebekah Ackroyd, Senior Lecturer in Education (PG Studies), University of Cumbria, UK.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	12 May 2025 09:29
Last Modified:	13 May 2025 08:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8814

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