Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discuss Derek Bentley's story: 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dere...

Using systematic linguistic analysis, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and team @aifl.bsky.social through a Leverhulme-funded project develop clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ADOBE

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...

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...

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.

🌟 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...

‼️ 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

🚨 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 👇👇👇

🚨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

✴️ 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

Just over an hour before episode 6 drops! 👇

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

📢 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...

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]

Here we are again!

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.

In this episode, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social are joined by criminologist Dr Elisabeth Carter to unpack the manipulative language of romance scams, exploring how scammers build trust, how victims are drawn in, and how you can protect yourself

Write up of Episode 1 of our podcast @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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

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...

Seventy five years ago today, the 9th of March 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged having confessed to the murder of his wife Beryl and his baby Geraldine. youtube.com/shorts/0YGft... #truecrime #linguistics #forensiclinguistics #teamaston

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

Under a week to go! Follow/subscribe below.

It's the moment you've all been waiting for - subscribe now to Writing Wrongs, the podcast from AIFL. First episodes drop 7th March 2025! Listen to the trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @timgrant123.bsky.social @drniccimacleod.bsky.social

Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us). You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts. #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #academicsky

A good general-readership write-up on #forensiclinguistics, with a quote from our own @drniccimacleod.bsky.social 👇https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/forensic-linguists-solve-crimes#new_tab #academicsky #linguistics

So proud of my colleagues for this important work. It was led by @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and included colleagues beyond AIFL in the broader dept of Communication and Culture. This was one of Márton Petykó's last research projects before he died in November 2023.

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

Trust us, you don't want to miss this week's Thursday seminar: '"You need to work her down to the bone": how seduction experts project an image of trustworthiness' with Annina Van Riper from the University of Birmingham. It's hybrid! You can now get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/584eraxz