Professor David M Howard's Career
David's first degree is a BSc(Eng) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College London in 1978. He completed his PhD in Human Communication entitled Larynx frequency speech processing for cochlear stimulation in 1985 under the guidance of Professor Adrian Fourcin at the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.
In 1990 he took up a post as a lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the University of York and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1993 and to a Personal Chair in 1996. He was Head of that Department between 1996 and 2000. He contributes to teaching in music technology with colleagues from both the Department of Electronics and the Department of Music.
He is
- a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
- a Chartered Engineer
- a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics
- a Founder Member of the International Association of Forensic Phoneticians
- a Member of the Audio Engineering Society,
- a Member of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians.
He was the 1997/98 President of the British Voice Association, and the 1999-2001 Chair of the Committee of the Engineering Professors' Council.
In addition, David is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal: 'Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology' published by Taylor and Francis, and a member of the Editorial Boards of 'Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law' published by the University of Birmingham Press, and 'Organised Sound' published by Cambridge University press.