Professor Felicity Cox is a member of the Centre for Language Sciences in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. She is President of the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. She is an ARC Future Fellow engaged in the project Multicultural Australian English: The New Voice of Sydney. In 2018 she was awarded an ARC Discovery project grant with Professor Jonathan Harrington (IPS Munich) for the project Child Language, Community Diversity and the Emergence of Sound Change. She is a member of a team of researchers awarded an ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities grant in 2019 for the project AusKidTalk: An Australian Children's Speech Corpus. She is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the Australian English accent and has published extensively on the phonetic characteristics of the variety with a particular focus on the phonetic and phonological analysis of sound change, the acquisition of phonology, and sociophonetics.
