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...

Forensic Linguistics and History Symposium

The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics invites you all to our interdisciplinary symposium on Forensic Linguistics and History

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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...

The Derek Bentley Case 👇 In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.

📢 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...

Transnational Romance Fraud: West Africa–U.S. Links

With widespread unemployment and financial precarity, cyberfraud can seem like an appealing way—sometimes the only way—to earn a living.

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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

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics@aifl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌟 Writing Wrongs Live! 🌟 We warmly invite you to our Writing Wrongs live event on the 22nd of October, 4-6pm at the Steelhouse Lane Lock-Up in Birmingham, UK! You can now register following the link below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wr...

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

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics@aifl.bsky.social · 12mo ago

That was season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast! Dr Nicci MacLeod and Tim Grant have taken a case-by-case look at the field of forensic linguistics in action throughout 8 episodes 👇

🌟 Writing Wrongs Live! 🌟 We warmly invite you to our Writing Wrongs live event on the 22nd of October, 4-6pm at the Steelhouse Lane Lock-Up in Birmingham, UK! You can now register following the link below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-wr...

Writing Wrongs - LIVE!

Every sentence tells a story, every word leaves a trace. Join Tim and Nicci for a special recording in front of a live audience.

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That was season 1 of the Writing Wrongs podcast! Dr Nicci MacLeod and Tim Grant have taken a case-by-case look at the field of forensic linguistics in action throughout 8 episodes 👇

🔎 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

‼️ Out now ‼️ 🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️ our Season One Series finale: ⁉️ The Questions and Answers Episode ⁉️ You can listen on Spotify 👉 t.co/fES8uEi14m Apple Podcasts or any podcast platform or direct from our webpages by going to 👉https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs

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

Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics@aifl.bsky.social · last yr.

🔊 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 👇👇👇

🚨 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!

Ralph Morton@ralphmortonlang.bsky.social · last yr.

New @aifl.bsky.social blog alert! In the latest in his ‘Meet the Researchers’ series @robbie-davies.bsky.social talks to AIFL and Cardiff University researcher David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com about his work and the role of power and persuasion in legal language. Link: aifl-blog.com/meet-the-res...

🚨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...

AIFL Interview Series: James R. Fitzgerald

By Julija Danu

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🤩 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.

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · last yr.

Using systematic linguistic analysis, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social's project develops clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

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...

PhD applications, but make it forensic linguistics

By Noorin Iqbal

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There are still some places left to register for our Summer School in Forensic Linguistics, taking place Tuesday to Friday 9am - 5pm | 24th-27th June, 2025. You can find more information below 👇 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant

The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...

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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 Institute for Forensic Linguistics@aifl.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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/...

Aston University enters partnership to become Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

The Centre will focus on practical ways to support policing in areas like building public trust, preventing crime

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