Rob is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, involved primarily in sociolinguistic variation, accents and dialects, and language-based prejudice. His work has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (The Manchester Voices Project) and The Leverhulme Trust (Expressing inner-city youth identity through Multicultural British English).
Rob's public-facing book - You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak, was published in October 2023 by Scribe. https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/youare-all-talk-9781914484285