I presented part of my research yesterday at the 17th Biennal Conference of @iafll.bsky.social #IAFLL25 Job done, now the fun starts in South Africa

@avanriper.bsky.social being the supportive human being they always are - it's a joy to work alongside YOU

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

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]

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 we're off! Today with Nicci MacLeod at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics we've released the first three episodes of our brand new podcast Writing Wrongs 🎙️Follow Writing Wrongs here 👉 podfollow.com/1797795962 #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #podcasts #academicsky

Hundreds of Catalan learners call government to offer classes for 200,000 people /via ACTFL www.catalannews.com/...

It's been a great pleasure to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social & @timgrant123.bsky.social on the AIFL podcast. My contributions have been minimal, but being part of the production team has become such a great learning and fun experience. Subscribe now and let us know what you think

We'd like to share our next CPD training course! We'll talk about the types of linguistic evidence admitted to Court in the English and Welsh Legal System Where? Online When? Friday, April 11 (12-2pm UK time) For booking and more information: www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

Ethical sex or good sex requires more than consent. It also requires a proper regard for one’s own self and for the other, including a proper regard for the other’s desires and beliefs (Archard, 2022), or ‘mutuality’, a caring attention to the other person (Lamb et al., 2021)

Registration is now OPEN for our free symposium "Forensic Linguistics and the Law", which will showcase interdisciplinary research conducted across these two fields. Join us Friday, March 14 · 1 - 4:50pm GMT (in-person or online) 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-l...

First day of teaching done! I've briefly talked about the role language plays throught the legal process. Must say I was missing it.

I'm pleased to share that my entry for Janet Cotterill in the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics is expected to be published online in spring 2025, and in print in winter 2025. In there, I explore her remarkable research and her contributions in the field of language and law

And my abstract got accepted! I'll be talking about how the PUA community linguistically diminishes women's sexual authority and agency, providing understandings of consent that allow them to reclaim their masculinity through heterosexual activity. See you soon @iafll.bsky.social

A great opportunity to learn about investigative interviewing #academicsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #investigativeinterviewing

@aifl.bsky.social - AIFL improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language! www.aston.ac.uk/latest-news/... #academicsky #forensiclinguistics #linguistics

The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Part III

Part II

Some postcards from Edinburgh so far

Our next CPD offering (and the first of 2025) will be on enhanced communication skills for investigative interviewing! Join us on Friday 24th January 2025 for a one-day course demonstrating how linguistic understanding can support investigative interview practice.

Got plans for this Thursday? If so, cancel them, because we will be welcoming Dana Roemling and Dr Lucia Busso to our Thursday seminar series to talk about their work on CorGeS: a historic corpus of German suicide notes. Get your free (!) tickets here: tinyurl.com/525crbn9

Just submitted my abstract for the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics (IAFLL). Assuming it will be accepted, I'm excited to have the opportunity to talk about my research on sexual consent in such an inspirational environment.

Delighted to announce the publication of the Cambridge Element "Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case" by Julia Kupper, Marie Bosjen-Moller, Tanya Karoli Christensen, @dakwing.bsky.social , Marcus Papadopulos and Sharon Smith www.cambridge.org/core/element...

On Monday, I attended a seminar organised by the Gender and Sexualities research cluster at Aston. Dr Jilly Boyce talked about the rise of digital, reactionary 'feminism', and how these online spaces mirror the practices of the manosphere, spreading ideas of gender inequality. Fascinating research.

Cannot wait to hear about my friend's research on the Pick-up Artist community. Please do come along if you can, it looks promising.