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...

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...

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

🌟 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...

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

🚨 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...

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...

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 👉 [email protected]

Join us for a free research seminar on Thursday, May 15th, 4-5pm. Manuel Alcántara-Plá (Autonomous University of Madrid) will delve into how emotions work in communication and into the special characteristics of hate speech. #academicsky #hatespeech #forensiclinguistics #linguistics

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.

🚨 Coming this Friday on the 'Writing Wrongs' podcast 🚨 Series 1 - Episode 4 - Romance Fraud: The Linguistic Crime Scene with @drliscarter.bsky.social (available on all platforms)

A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅ @issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!

What's sociolinguistic profiling? @timgrant123.bsky.social has got the answer in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs', available on all platforms 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for... #academicsky #linguistics #sociolinguistics #forensiclinguistics

And another media appearance for us 😀 Our 'Writing Wrongs' podcast here 👇 www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

It was a brilliant talk, David! Thank you for joining us yesterday

In this episode of the Writing Wrongs #podcast from @aifl.bsky.social, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @issyclarke.bsky.social discuss their experience of doing an authorship analysis to help the police identify the builder of a crude bomb. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6nay...

We're recruiting! New fully funded PhD studentship in Forensic Linguistics, starting October 2025: 'Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence'. Would you like to work on a research project with @felicitydeamer.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social? Apply now 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This episode is such a fascinating exploration into the role of #forensiclinguistics in examining legal cases and tackling miscarriages of justice. #langsky #linguistics

Scottish Express picks up our new 🎙️ Writing Wrongs 🎙️podcast episode To listen or subscribe 👉www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs #truecrime #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #academicsky www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottis...

We even made it to the Scottish Daily Express! 👇 www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottis...

The serial killer downstairs and the birth of forensic linguistics. You can now listen to this and much more in our new 'Writing Wrongs' podcast 👉 www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs Featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social #truecrime #forensiclinguistics #academicsky

OUT NOW! You can now listen to the first three episodes of our new brand podcast Writing Wrongs. A new episode will be released the first Friday of each month, starting in April. Here's a little sneak peak! youtube.com/shorts/Z2CFX... #truecrime #linguistics #forensiclinguisitcs #academicsky