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 |
32nd | 2024 | Montreal, Canada | Website |
33rd | 2025 | The Hague, Netherlands |