Research output per year
Research output per year
Tel: 0121 204 3810
Email: f.deamer@aston.ac.uk
As a lecturer in Aston’s Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL), my current research uses language analysis to shed light on issues that emerge at the intersection between Law and psychiatry; domains which primarily pursue different social purposes through profoundly different constructs and methodologies, and yet must interact with one another across myriad legal proceedings. My work explores a broad range of linguistic data including expert psychiatric reports submitted as evidence during murder trials, police interviews with people experiencing serious mental illness, and bodycam footage from secure mental health wards.
Prior to working in a forensic context, I held research fellowships on interdisciplinary mental health research projects. I have used insights from pragmatics and non-literal language use to better understand psychotic symptoms, and have used a variety of methods, from conversation analysis to eye-tracking, to investigate a variety of phenomena, including patient/therapist interactions and metaphor comprehension in psychosis.
2013 - University College London - PhD in Linguistics
2009 - University College London - MRes Speech, Language and Cognition
2007 - University College London - BA Linguistics (1st class with honours)
*February 2022 - Present, Aston University
Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics
*September 2021 - January 2022, University of the West of England
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
*November 2019 - September 2021, Aston University
Research Fellow, Institute for Forensic Linguistics
*October 2016 – October 2019, Durham University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, “Hearing the Voice”
*March 2014 - October 2016, Durham University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, “Language and Mental Health”
*August 2013 - March 2014, University College London
Teaching Fellow in Linguistics
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Kate Haworth (Speaker), Felicity Deamer (Speaker) & Emma Richardson (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Felicity Deamer (Speaker), Emma Richardson (Speaker), Nabanita Basu (Speaker) & Kate Haworth (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Kate Haworth (Co-organiser), Emma Richardson (Co-organiser) & Felicity Deamer (Co-organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Kate Haworth (Speaker), Felicity Deamer (Speaker) & Emma Richardson (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Emma Richardson (Editorial board member), Kate Haworth (Editorial board member), Felicity Deamer (Editorial board member), Debbie Loakes (Editorial board member), Martha Komter (Editorial board member) & Helen Fraser (Editorial board member)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity