Since 2017, the Council of the IPA has established several committees that have taken on some of the tasks of running the Association allowing us to expand what we can do for the field of phonetics. Following seven years of service, the membership of the committees was reviewed in 2024. We would like to thank all outgoing members for their service and welcome the new members and chairpersons.
Below are the committees, their membership, and brief descriptions. Some committees include non-Council members. These are members with previous experience on the committees who have agreed to continue their service or members with expertise on different areas the committees are responsible for. Some committees may be adding more members, including student members.
Alphabet, Charts and Fonts - Adrian Simpson (Chair), Michael Ashby, John Esling, James Kirby, Asher Laufer, Benjamin V. Tucker
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Contact point for proposals for changes to the alphabet or chart; production of IPA charts in various fonts, file formats, and image resolutions; online distribution of these charts; liaison with SIL and Unicode Technical Committee; liaison with International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association; soliciting, vetting, and disseminating IPA charts in languages other than English and tables of correspondences between IPA and non-IPA symbols.
Conference Sponsorships and Student Awards - Ioana Chitoran (chair), Pam Beddor, John Esling, Jonathan Harrington, Katerina Nicolaidis, Masaki Taniguchi
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Policies for conference/workshop sponsorship; evaluation of requests to the IPA for such sponsorship. Guidelines and criteria for evaluating applications for IPA Student Awards and Gösta Bruce travel awards; solicitation and evaluation of applications for these awards. Guidelines and criteria for evaluating applications for student mobility program; solicitation and evaluation of applications for these awards. Determination and management of annual budget for awards.
Education – Patricia Ashby (chair), Maria Maria-Josep Solé
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Educational content of the IPA’s website and other educational outreach to students and teachers of phonetics.
History - Michael Ashby (chair), Marc Garellek, Mária Gósy
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History of the Association and its journals, and of phonetics more generally. Liaison with ISCA SIG on History of Speech Communication Research, The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, and with the historical acoustic-phonetics collection (HAPS) at TU Dresden.
PhD Thesis Award - Sónia Frota (co-chair), Martine Grice (co-chair), Taehong Cho, Lisa Davidson, Thais Christofaro Silva, Maria Josep Solé.
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Evaluation of applications to the IPA PhD Thesis Award. The award distinguishes the best PhD Thesis in the broad area of Phonetics, Speech Sciences, and Laboratory Phonology. The prize is awarded annually to a PhD student who has produced an outstanding PhD thesis with substantial academic potential and that contributes to advancing the scientific study of the field.
Phonetic Documentation of Languages – Pat Keating (chair), Marc Garellek, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Plinio Barbosa, James Kirby, Alexis Michaud, Janet Fletcher
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Encourage and fund phonetic fieldwork through existing organizations; offer expert advice to fieldworkers; liaison with archives of language materials.
Social Media and Outreach - Mariapaola D’ Imperio (chair), Katerina Nicolaidis, Jane Setter
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Develop our social media, including our website, our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and our presence in Wikipedia, work on content to be posted, especially with a view to outreach to non-members who are interested in phonetics and the IPA.
