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World Voice Day 16 April
TODAY – and every 16 April – is World Voice Day! To celebrate, the British Voice Association has produced a series of short videos and accompanying posters on voice care. You’ll find them on our RESOURCES page, and on social media (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads).
Read MoreMovers and Shakers launch Parkinson’s Voice campaign
On World Parkinson’s Day (11 April), BVA Patron Mark Mardell, the distinguished journalist and former BBC broadcaster, has launched a year-long campaign to raise the voices of people living with Parkinson’s Disease. Mark is one-sixth of the award-winning Parkinson’s podcast team, Movers and Shakers. The impact of Parkinson’s on the voice can be an especially…
Read MoreVan Lawrence Prize Winner 2026
JUST ANNOUNCED! Jenna Brown is the winner of the Van Lawrence Prize 2026 for her research and presentation: Female Voices After Laryngectomy: Vulnerability, stigma and psychosocial impact. She is a UKRI-ESRC funded doctoral researcher at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research unites rigorous qualitative and mixed-methods inquiry with innovative pedagogy and practice. As a voice…
Read MoreBVA Research Forum January 2026
Saturday 24 January 2026 – Online 10.30 -17.00 GMT The new year launches the first British Voice Association Research Forum. This online event includes both the prestigious Gunnar Rugheimer Lecture (given by Professor Kittie Verdolini Abbott) and presentations from the four Van Lawrence Prize finalists. Multidisciplinary voice is the theme of the day with the…
Read MoreEmpower Your Voice – a new BVA information leaflet
Taking the World Voice Day theme for 2025: ‘Empower Your Voice’, the BVA has produced a new information leaflet. It offers pointers on finding your speaking and singing voice communities; on how to use your voice in new and imaginative ways (laugh more, join a comedy club), advice on how to enhance the richness and…
Read MoreLaunch of the BVA Research Group
With the launch of the newly formed BVA Research Group, the BVA is creating three exciting opportunities for member researchers from any field of voice to showcase their work and profile. We especially welcome new graduates and early-career researchers. The opportunities on offer: (1) a profile in the magazine section of the BVA website on…
Read MoreVoice in the News: Vocal coaches and the tricks they teach politicians
“What makes a politician an effective public speaker?” Not only did Keir Starmer, the prime minister, face a tough week on mid-Atlantic relations and the economy, he was also (in some quarters) taken to task for working with a voice coach. We link to an article in The Guardian (8 February) written by Esther Addley…
Read MoreExpert Vocal Mimicry: How Wallace got a new voice
If you sat down to view the latest Wallace & Gromit offering this Xmas, you would have heard the debut of voice artist, Ben Whitehead, as Wallace. A role established previously and most distinctively by Peter Sallis. In her article for The Conversation BVA member, Jenny Chantelle Tullett gives the background to this feat of…
Read MoreVoice in the News: Life Changing (BBC: Sian Edwards)
In her series Life Changing (BBC r4) Sian Edwards speaks with Tania Bage, post laryngectomy, about the permanent loss of her voice and how she is learning to communicate all over again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025c09
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