University Transcriptions are based in the United Kingdom and have worked with academic clients based in locations as diverse as Birmingham, the Black Country, Bradford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Durham, Gloucester, Guildford, Home Counties, Hull, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, as well as Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom and beyond.
We are specialists for UK regional accents and dialects. So many exist it is hard to list them all, but please click here for details of our dialect and accent transcription services. We do not charge extra to transcribe ‘hard to hear’ voices speaking English, regardless of how strong the accents are.
UniversityTranscriptions.co.uk is a registered data controller with the Information Commissioners Office, the UK government organisation regulating how data is handled and protected. Our registration number is ZA305217. This complies with EU law on data handling and works to a similar level to the 27 other EU states, particularly important after Brexit if your institution has strict data protection requirements for transcription service providers.
We are a UK registered company and file our accounts annually in England and Wales with Companies House, who regulate our business. Our company number is 4946815. We have a D-U-N-S number: 736877809. DUNS stands for “Data Universal Numbering System”, a service operated by Dun & Bradstreet in the UK and USA to provide unique identification to companies worldwide.
Our transcription services manager has BPSS UK Government (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) clearance, which is a security level comparable across the EU for academic and government institutions handling politically sensitive data. University Transcriptions is also CyberEssentials accredited. Cyber Essentials is a UK government accreditation system that awards a certificate to companies who are able to demonstrate a particular level of data security. This is comparable with other EU state accreditations for data handling security.