Conferences

IAFPA runs an annual conference to facilitate the exchange of phonetic and acoustic research, methodology and best practice for the analysis of recordings and interpretation of findings, and any other issues pertinent to the organisation’s aims.

Student Travel Grants

We are delighted to offer 2 travel grants of £250 for students who are self-funding attendance at our conferences. These grants are kindly sponsored by Equinox, the publisher of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, who will offer two grants named after this journal.  Student members should look out for the call for grant applications prior to each conference.

Student Conference Prizes

IAFPA awards 2 student conference presentation prizes each year – for the best oral presentation and the best poster presentation – with winners receiving a free registration for the next conference. We are very grateful to Oxford Wave Research for sponsoring a separate prize for talks on acoustics and automatic voice analysis.

Previous conferences [Recent]

IAFPA 2024 – Montreal, Canada

Our 32nd annual IAFPA Conference was held on 28-31 July 2024 in Montreal, Canada, kindly hosted by L’Université du Québec à Montréal and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

IAFPA 2023 – Zürich, Switzerland

The 31st International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) Conference was held from 9-12 July 2023 in Zürich. It was hosted by a team of IAFPA members from the University of Zürich (UZH) / Centre for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (CFPA) and Zürich Forensic Science Institute (FOR). Find more information on the conference website.

IAFPA 2022 – Prague, Czech Republic

The 30th International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) Conference was held on July 10–13, 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic as an in-person conference.  You can visit the website at: https://iafpa2022.ff.cuni.cz

Previous conferences [Full listing]

Pre-IAFP Meetings

1989 – Annual Conference on Forensic Phonetics – York, UK
1990 – Annual Conference on Forensic Phonetics – York, UK
1991 – Annual Conference on Forensic Phonetics – York, UK

IAFPA/IAFP Annual Conferences

1st 1992 York, UK 
2nd 1993 Trier, Germany 
3rd 1994 Cardiff, UK 
4th 1995 Orlando, USA 
5th 1996 Wiesbaden, Germany 
6th 1997 Edinburgh, UK 
7th 1998 Voorburg, Netherlands 
8th 1999 York, UK 
9th 2000 Rome, Italy 
10th 2001 Paris, France 
11th 2002 Moscow, Russia 
12th 2003 Vienna, Austria 
13th 2004 Helsinki, Finland 
14th 2005 Marrakesh, Morocco 
15th 2006 Gothenburg, Sweden 
16th 2007 Plymouth, UK 
17th 2008 Lausanne, Switzerland
18th 2009 Cambridge, UK
19th 2010 Trier, Germany
20th 2011 Vienna, Austria
21st 2012 Santander, Spain
22nd 2013 Tampa, Florida 
23rd 2014 Zurich, Switzerland 
24th 2015 Leiden, The Netherlands 
25th 2016 York, UK Website
26th 2017 Split, Croatia 
27th 2018 Huddersfield, UK Website
28th 2019 Istanbul, Turkey 
29th 2021 [Online] Marburg, GER
30th 2022 Prague, Czechia Website
31st 2023 Zürich, Switzerland Website
32nd2024Montreal, CanadaWebsite
33rd2025The Hague, Netherlands