The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is delighted to announce that Prof. Aditi Lahiri FBA won the award in the Inspiring Leadership category at this year’s Inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards, for the impressive way in which she has led her research team in developing a new Flexible Speech Recognition system (Flex-SR) that integrates linguistics research with cutting-edge technology. The award was presented to Prof. Lahiri at a ceremony on 12 July 2018.