Sophie Scott (MA English, PG Dip vocal pedagogy, PG Dip acting, ALAM) is a vocal, performance and presentation skills coach and a Sustained Dialogue Moderator. With a background in the performing arts and publishing, Sophie’s work connects voice in all its concepts: as written and voiced communication, and identity. She is an alumnus of Cambridge University, The Oxford School of Drama, and University of Wales, Trinity St David’s.

Through her work Sophie is committed to understanding and informing the real-world impact of language and voice on communication – in both performance and conversation – for relationship development. Her research interests focus on voice as a relational resource, talk-in-action, and the liminality of authentic performance. As a facilitator of Sustained Dialogue, she supports groups through a five-stage dialogue to action process for building relationships and creating community change: intra- and interpersonal, organisational, systemic. She is also a Gestalt skills practitioner and keenly interested in voice and trauma, having worked as an employability coach with women survivors of modern slavery.

Sophie specialises in voice as a relational tool (speech & singing).

Publications:

Insights, Considerations, and Suggestions for the Practitioner-Researcher in Voice Studies
Sophie Scott https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2022.2137972

 

Featured Posts

Blog

Rethinking our use of questions

Sophie Scott
Friday 26th May 2023

Have you ever considered the power of a question? Has it ever struck you that the act of imposing a question on your listener is, in some way, an interactional burden?

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Director & Team News

Lecturer Sophie Scott headed to New York to work on a Brechtian musical cabaret!

Voice Study Centre
Monday 24th April 2023

'Risk! A Climate Cabaret' takes a light-hearted but poignant look at climate change and financial risk.

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Director & Team News

Voice Study Centre Lecturer Appointed Associate Editor of The VASTA Voice

Voice Study Centre
Wednesday 8th March 2023

Sophie Scott has recently been appointed as Associate Editor of The VASTA Voice.

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Upcoming Short Courses

Demystifying Research Methodology (6-session course)
Thursday 23rd May 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
(London Time)

Demystifying Research Methodology (6-session course)

Sophie Scott

If you are wanting to engage in research and would like to deepen your understanding of qualitative research methods, please join us for our six-session course in real time!

Past Short Courses

Demystifying Research Methodology (6-session course)
Tuesday 21st November 2023
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
(London Time)

Demystifying Research Methodology (6-session course)

Sophie Scott

If you are wanting to engage in research and would like to deepen your understanding of qualitative research methods, please join us for our six-session course in real time!

Demystifying Research Methodology - six week course
Tuesday 2nd May 2023
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
(London Time)

Demystifying Research Methodology - six week course

Sophie Scott

If you are wanting to engage in research and would like to deepen your understanding of qualitative research methods, please join us for our six-week course in real-time!

Lunchtime Lecture - Conversation Analysis, and Why it's of Value in Voice Research
Tuesday 25th April 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
(London Time)

Lunchtime Lecture - Conversation Analysis, and Why it's of Value in Voice Research

Sophie Scott

This lunchtime lecture is the first in a series to examine Conversation Analysis, a qualitative method with excellent potential for voice science, pedagogy and coaching.