This course will be of interest to graduates with a background in linguistics, acoustics, English or other language-based disciplines; graduates in law, criminology or psychology; professionals in legal practice, government agencies, law enforcement agencies or other branches of forensic science; potential practitioners of forensic speech science. It provides a comprehensive foundation in the aims, practices, and principles of speech analysis for forensic purposes. The course will provide a thorough grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of forensic speech analysis, especially in phonetics, acoustics, and sociolinguistics/language variation; introduce students to the practical techniques used in forensic speech and audio analysis; provide students with an appreciation of theoretical and methodological problems in performing forensic speech and audio analysis; enable students to apply their skills and knowledge to recorded materials from real criminal cases; enable students to perform original research in speaker comparison and speech content analysis; impart understanding of the role and responsibilities of the forensic speech scientist as expert witness.