Projects in national and international competitive tenders underway

2022/2025Team Member: Estereotipos de género en la voz y el habla de las mujeres ESTEREOFeM (Ref. PID2021-122607OA-I00). Convocatoria de Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2021. Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia de España. Programa Estatal para Impulsar la Investigación Científico-Técnica y su Transferencia, del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023 (IP – Nuria Polo, Facultad de Filología, UNED); 45 375,00 €. Duração: 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2025.  
2023/2024Co-Investigator: SINGINGWOMB – Saúde da mulher, bem-estar na gravidez e vínculo perinatal: contributos do canto pré-natal (Ref. 2022. 01750.PTDC), financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia do Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia Português (IP – Maria Eduarda Carvalho, FCSH – Nova, Lisboa); 48 693,90 €). Duração: 01/03/2023 – 31/07/2024.


Projects in competitive national and international competitions concluded

2019/2022Principal Investigator: Research Project The effects of menopause on the voice and verbal and artistic communication of professional female voice users Funded body: Programa de Atracción de Talento de la CAM, Modalidad Senior, (Ref. 2018-T1/HUM-1217); € 301 932 Duties: To develop research activities on voice science; coordinate a team of 2 research assistants; create and direct the Voice, Music and Language Laboratory of the Faculty of Education, at UNED, Madrid, Spain; disseminate knowledge and transfer it into the society; develop international collaborations; apply for extra funding opportunities.  
2021/2022Co-Investigator: Research Project Effects of compulsory facemask use during COVID19 pandemic on perceived voice handicap; € 7 250 Funded body: Ayudas para la Realización de Proyectos de investigación en Áreas de Ciencias Sociales, sobre temas relacionados con la COVID-19 y Alineados con los ODS, financiados por el Banco Santander, del Vicerrectorado de Internacionalización de la UNED, Madrid, Spain (MASCARA UNED-Santander del Vicerrectorado de Internacionalización, 2021/2022) Duties: Member of the research team in charge of designing and collecting data on comparing perceived voice handicap index with and without using a facemask.  
2017/2018Team Member: Research Project Quantification of Flow Phonation; $ 3 560 Funded body: Educations and Research Project from The Voice Foundation, USA Duties: Member of the research team in charge of designing and collecting data on comparing flow phonation vocal parameters between the results of inverse-filtering and high-speed imaging of the vocal folds of healthy adults
2010/2014Team Member: Research Project Music and Society: choir singing context (1880-2012); € 77 636   Funded body: Foundation for Science and Technology, Minister for Science and Technology (PTDC/EAT-MMU/117788/2010) Duties: Member of the research team in charge of studying the role of choir section leaders: the conductor’s perspective  
2006/2007Principal Investigator: The effects of the oral contraceptive pill on the professional voice; £ 40 000 Funded body: White-Rose Building Capacity Grant, UK Duties: Non-invasive measures of voice source analysis (i.e. electrolaryngographic analysis of the voice source); Endocrinology of the voice (correlations between sex steroid hormonal variations and associated impacts on physiological and acoustical aspects of voice production); Quantitative and qualitative research methods on psycho-sociological aspects related to the female professional voice (e.g. self-esteem, self-identity, self-efficacy, general quality of life).