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Dr Nicci MacLeod
@drniccimacleod.bsky.social
Reader in Forensic Linguistics & Deputy Director, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics aifl.bsky.social, Co-host, Writing Wrongs podcast https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs
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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...
Derek Bentley: Death by Ambiguity
In this first episode of a two-part case, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Professor Tim Grant discuss Derek Bentley’s story and the miscarriages of justice that occurred when he was found guilty of murder and re...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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
Analysing and Describing Online Behaviour around Escalation (ADOBE)
Using systematic linguistic analysis, Nicci MacLeod, Emily Chiang and Ralph Morton develop clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts
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November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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...
Writing Wrongs
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September 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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...
Forensic Linguistics and History Symposium
The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics invites you all to our interdisciplinary symposium on Forensic Linguistics and History
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September 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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.
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🌟 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...
Writing Wrongs - LIVE!
Every sentence tells a story, every word leaves a trace. Join Tim and Nicci for a special recording in front of a live audience.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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‼️ 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
Writing Wrongs
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August 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🚨 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

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July 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🔊 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 👇👇👇
July 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🚨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
Writing Wrongs
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July 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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✴️ 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

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Writing Wrongs
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June 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just over an hour before episode 6 drops! 👇
✴️ New episode ✴️ of 🎧 Writing Wrongs 🎧 out tomorrow:

In🎙️ The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan 🎙️ Writing Wrongs goes stateside and listens into a murder investigation in St Louis, Missouri.

Here’s a discussion of Miranda rights in the case.

#forensiclinguistics
#langsky
#academicsky
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Check out the work happening at @aifl.bsky.social looking at escalation online.
Using systematic linguistic analysis, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social's project develops clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
May 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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📢 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...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant
The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...
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May 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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...
April 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🎙 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]
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here we are again!
In case you’d not had enough of Nicci MacLeod and myself on our own Writing Wrongs podcast, you can also hear us with Jim Fitzgerald and Ray Carr on their Cold Red podcast:

www.coldredpodcast.com

They were very kind to invite us to talk all things forensic linguistics with them.
Cold Red Podcast: Gripping True Crime Stories by Retired FBI Agents | Listen Now
Explore Cold Red, a true crime podcast hosted by retired FBI agents Raymond Carr and James Fitzgerald. Dive deep into untold stories of notorious criminals and the relentless pursuit of justice. Tune ...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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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.
April 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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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
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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
March 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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...
Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence at Aston University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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March 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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
Did Timothy Evans REALLY confess? #truecrime #linguistics #shorts
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March 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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
The serial killer downstairs and birth of forensic linguistics! #linguistics #katesummerscale
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March 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM