Professional & Business Communications & BCALS Lecture: Tim Grant
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Professional & Business Communications & BCALS Lecture Series presents Tim Grant.
Taking language analysis to Court How linguistic investigative advice, language evidence, and expert opinion are used in the UK justice system
In this talk, Tim Grant will examine the different roles through which language analysis can be used to improve the delivery of justice in the Courts. Through discussion of a series of cases in which he has been involved he will argue that forensic linguists, acting both as researchers and practitioners, need to focus on a broad variety of use cases and understand better how their analysis can be useful in the criminal and civil justice systems.
Professor Tim Grant is the Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University and President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. Tim has extensive experience of providing linguistic evidence in a variety of cases including sexual assault, stalking, murder, and terrorism. He is particularly interested in forensic authorship analysis focusing on short messages such as text messages and Twitter posts and his recent work has focussed on developing linguistic techniques to investigate anonymous dark-web crimes such as online child sex abuse.
Contact name:
Linguistics
Contact phone:
2076316499