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Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the first of its type in the world. It combines leading-edge research and investigative forensic practice with postgraduate teaching and professional courses.
Research at the Institute involves all aspects of forensic linguistics from how the police and the courts can best work with interpreters to the development and refinement of methods for identifying the writer of disputed forensic texts. Members have published widely and lectured about their research in some 30 countries. Their high-quality research ensures that both postgraduate and professional courses and their investigative work have a solid academic foundation.
FLAIR - Forensic Linguistics Advice, Investigation & Research is the consultancy arm of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Bringing together experienced practitioners with experience of hundreds of cases, FLAIR offers high-quality expertise, from analysis and report writing, to the delivery of expert opinions in court. Recent casework has included analyses of mobile telephone text messages, forged suicide notes and terrorist conspiracy documents. FLAIR applies quality assurance procedures that are unavailable to lone practitioners and offers a clearing house service to investigators and potential clients looking for an expert.
The Institute offers high quality training in all aspects of forensic linguistics to a variety of professional groups including police officers, lawyers and judges. The International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis is a week-long introduction to forensic linguistics for professionals and academics and the Institute also offers tightly focussed one-day courses in Interviewing with an Interpreter, Linguistic Issues in the Courtroom, and Forensic Textual Analysis.
The MSc in Forensic Linguistics is as a distance-learning, credit-accumulation, programme, which draws on Aston University's substantial expertise developed over 25 years in delivery of distance courses. Students based anywhere in the world can study and accumulate credits from individual modules and/or short courses to gain the postgraduate qualification that suits them. Short courses such as the above-mentioned International Summer School can be taken as credit-bearing modules and so contribute towards a Postgraduate qualification.
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Profiles
Lucia Busso
- Languages & Social Sciences
- English - Post-doctoral Research in Forensic Linguistics
- Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Person: Research
Emily Chiang
- Languages & Social Sciences
- English - Research Associate
- Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Person: Research
Research Output
The Starbuck Case: Methods for addressing confirmation bias in forensic authorship analysis.
Grant, T. & Grieve, J., 4 Feb 2021, (Accepted/In press) Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework. Perkins, R., Picornell, I. & Coulthard, M. (eds.). WileyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Learning to manage rapport in GP trainee encounters: A discursive politeness approach
Emerson, T., Harrington, L., Mullany, L., Atkins, S., Churchill, D., Winter, R. & Patel, R., 15 Aug 2020, Politeness in Professional Contexts. Archer, D., Grainger, K. & Jagodziński, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 25-54 30 p. (Politeness in Professional Contexts).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Pragmatics: Leadership and team communication in emergency medicine training.
Atkins, S. & Chalupnik, M., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In Brookes, G. and Hunt, D., eds., Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches. Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Student theses
Bilingual practices in Ghanaian primary schools: implications for curriculum design and educational practice
Author: Yevudey, E., 13 May 2017Supervisor: Reershemius, G. K. (Supervisor) & Grieve, J. W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Linguistic identifiers of L1 Persian speakers writing in English: NLID for authorship analysis
Author: Perkins, R., 9 Jan 2014Supervisor: Grant, T. D. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Police interviews with women reporting rape: a critical discourse analysis
Author: MacLeod, N. J., May 2010Supervisor: Marley, C. N. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Prizes
Lifetime Achievement Award, Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics
Haworth, Kate (Recipient), Sep 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Poster Prize, Royal College of General Practitioners, 2018 Annual Conference
Atkins, Sarah (Recipient), Oct 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Knowledge Exchange and Impact Award
Atkins, Sarah (Recipient), May 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
'Everybody does things differently!' Evidential consistency and the production of official police interview records
Kate Haworth (Keynote speaker)
5 Sep 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Applying linguistics in practice: Language and communication training for police interviewers
Kate Haworth (Invited speaker)
30 Aug 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
14th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
Krzysztof Kredens (Participant)
1 Jul 2019 → 5 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press / Media
1641 Rebellion massacre reports based on hearsay, study shows
Nicci MacLeod
18/02/11
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research