Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics

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AIFL Thursday Seminars are Back! Join us fortnightly 4-5pm for our new seminar series! TOMMOROW! Constructing Idiolect: Using Construction Grammar for cross-genre authorship Speakers: Dr. Lucia Busso & Dr. Daniela Schneevogt More info below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

JOIN US on November 7th for the latest in our 'Forensic Linguistics AND...' symposium series. Next up is FL AND...History. Sign up for online or in person here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-l...

Your favourite forensic linguistics podcast is recording LIVE on 22nd October at the Steel House Lane Lock-up in Birmingham! Tickets are free here: tinyurl.com/58pfcjdz Listen to the trailer here: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

📢 Season 2 of Writing Wrongs kicks off tomorrow! 📢 The first episode is a two-parter exploring the classic case of #DerekBentley. We're joined by Prof. Malcolm Coulthard whose analysis contributed to Derek's posthumous acquittal. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Nothing like starting the week with a mention in a Forbes article about romance fraud 👇 www.forbes.com/sites/christ...

Season 2 of Writing Wrongs starts next Friday with a double-bill 🤫🤐 But I can tell you that Episode 4 is going to involve a live recording as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - and that you can come along! #podcast #truecrime #lingsky #langsky #academicsky #forensiclinguistics

It has been so much fun contributing to this podcast Can't wait for the release of Season 2 to start ... first Friday of each month ... so that's September 5th for Season 2! #truecrime #podcast #forensiclinguistics #appliedlinguistics #linguistics #academicsky #langsky #lingsky #TeamAston

🔎 Decoding slang meaning and forensic linguistics 🔎 @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss how important slang is in forensic linguistics casework in the Season One Series finale of Writing Wrongs. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform

Really excited by this episode - we got to sift through our listeners’ questions and answer as many as we could. It’s out on Friday - and if you want to catch up between now and then, there are seven case file episodes you can listen to right now! 👉 🎙️ www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

🚨 What's on your dream MacLeod's Murder Tour? 🚨 @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social answer your questions on the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs. Listen TOMORROW on your usual podcast platform or tinyurl.com/4b2m36ny. @astonpress.bsky.social 👇👇👇

🔊 Dropping this Friday, the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs, the AIFL podcast! 🔊 @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social will be answering some of the questions that have come in from listeners over the course of the past 7 episodes 👇👇👇

We are now on Instagram! Follow us for updates on forensic linguistics research, events, podcasts, and more 👇

MAFL alumna Sophie Hörl, with support from our own @drniccimacleod.bsky.social, had a paper based on her Dissertation published in Discourse and Society this week! Read 'A linguistic taxonomy for rape euphemisms in courtroom discourse' - link below 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I had a blast talking to Robbie for this! Check it out to learn about my research interests and my forensic linguistics origin story. And thanks again to @aifl.bsky.social for having me!

🚨NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY🚨 🎙️Writing Wrongs podcast🎙️ A true crime forensic linguistics podcast from @aifl.bsky.social - Every word leaves a trace Season1️⃣ Episode7️⃣: "They Said, She Said: The Ayia Napa Rape Case" 👉 Listen 🎧 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs 🎧 #truecrime #podcast #academicsky #linguistics

🎙️ Who wrote the retraction, the Greek police or the British teenager? - Episode 7 of the Writing Wrongs podcast out tomorrow 🎙️ In this episode, our hosts @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social discuss the Ayia Napa rape allegation case with @andreanini.com 👇

Former AIFL director Professor @timgrant123.bsky.social won @astonuniversity.bsky.social's prestigious Chancellor's Medal this year, presented at the Charter Dinner last week. AIFL Deputy Director @drniccimacleod.bsky.social collected from Aston's Chancellor, Dr Jason Wouhra OBE, on Tim's behalf.

You can now check our latest blog post, an interview with Jim Fitzgerald, former FBI criminal profiler and the first forensic linguist to have been employed by the FBI 👇 aifl-blog.com/aifl-intervi...

🤩 Join AIFL through Aston University Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships 🤩 We offer tenure-track positions to develop your research profile, establish your academic independence and contribute to an internationally recognised research team 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/vic...

✴️ Episode 6 of 🎧 Writing Wrongs 🎧 podcast out now! ✴️ 👉🎙️The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan🎙️👈 A man confesses to murder - eleven times. But was it his story or the detective’s? @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social chat with Dr Marlon Hurt aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

Check out the work happening at @aifl.bsky.social looking at escalation online.

Have a read at our new blog post on applying for a PhD program in forensic linguistics, by our Doctoral Researcher Noorin Iqbal 👇 aifl-blog.com/phd-applicat...

This was such a fascinating talk, exploring how humour can be used as a way of recruiting those seeking to find an in-group and a community. #langsky #forensiclinguistics

Aston, led by us and in consortium with Universities of Leicester and Birmingham has been recognised as a Police Academic Centre of Excellence for our policing research 👇 www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/...

I guess it's better late than never! Here's a short post about the #manosphere and the Netflix's mini series 'Adolescence' I wrote a few weeks ago for the @aifl.bsky.social blog 👉 medium.com/aston-instit... #academicsky #masculinities #linguistics

Join us for a free research seminar on Thursday, May 8th, 4-5pm. Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen) will show how the humor-hate nexus is present in far-right extremists’ communications Register here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-humor...

The latest episode of our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' is out today. @drniccimacleod.bsky.social explores her analysis on a covert recording between a group of men in the back of a police van. They have been accused of murder, but what they say isn’t all that clear 👇 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

Episode 5 of 'Writing Wrongs' will drop this Friday! In this episode, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss a murder case where Nicci was called upon to decode an obscure language game... Follow/subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

🎙 How are statements taken in police interviews? @timgrant123.bsky.social & @drniccimacleod.bsky.social discuss this in the first episode of our podcast 'Writing Wrongs'. 📱 Listen now on all major platforms 👉 aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs Do let us know what you think 👉 writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk

Join us online on Thursday, May 8 (4 - 5pm GMT+1) for the research seminar 'Not just fun and games: dark humour in far-right communications and targeted violence manifestos', delivered by Marie Bojsen-Møller (University of Copenhagen). Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-humor...

Out today! The latest episode of Writing Wrongs our forensic linguistics true crime podcast. Today’s episode is with Dr Elisabeth Carter and is a romance fraud case. Listen or subscribe form here 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs And let us know what you think.