Research project

Gendered body language and speech styles in UK Parliament using machine learning

Lead researcher:

Doctor Rafael Mestre
Other researchers:

Doctor Stuart Middleton,

Doctor Matt Ryan,

Professor Tim Norman
Status:

Not active

Project overview

This project aimed at studying how gender mediate body language and speech styles in Parliamentary debates, using methodological and empirical contributions to both fields. We developed tools to study audio in Parliamentary debates from the House of Commons and used methods from Natural Language Technique to extract information from Hansard transcripts.