Very happy to be able to share a piece I wrote for The Conversation on how linguistics is helping to combat dark web crime theconversation.com/forensic-lin...

⭐ Publication day! ⭐ New paper exploring what corpus linguistics can offer in terms of combating online fraud groups and activities. In a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics - Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Tackling Online Crime. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

New paper out! 🎉 Knowledge-exchange practices in a dark web money laundering forum: bit.ly/3ULTYon

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

Managed to save this guy/gal from my cat but now it won’t leave my shoe 🫤

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

Join us in April for our next CPD event for legal professionals!

Fantastic and not a moment too soon!

For our final Thursday seminar of 2024, we have what is sure to be a fascinating talk with William Costello regarding the prediction of harmful attitudes and beliefs in incel communities. Join us this week (4pm GMT)! Book your free online/in-person tickets here: tinyurl.com/2r8fhfsj #academicsky

We are looking for a full-time, temporary teaching-focused Lecturer in Discourse Analysis/Stylistics/Register analysis/forensic linguistics. Details of the job are available here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Deadline 12th Dec. Please retweet/share!

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.

Continuing our CPD Training Programme series, here's Forensic Linguistics for A-level English teachers! Join us on Friday, 29th of November for a one-day course where we will explore how topics in forensic linguistics can be used to support teaching. You can get your ticket here 👉 shorturl.at/wRNxK

Places still available on this one!

It’s nice here. I hope it stays nice.