A first-generation student from Suffolk, Kerri-Ann Butcher excelled in her studies at the University of Essex before coming to King’s to embark on a doctorate in Linguistics. She recently completed her PhD looking at the social and linguistic factors motivating the preservation of Middle English vowel distinctions in Lowestoft English, a variety spoken in East Anglia. Kerri has played football for Ipswich Town and was in the indie rock band Absent Kid.