I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. My areas of teaching and research are forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, register variation and cognitive linguistics.
See my university webpage for more information.
Assessing the suitability of forensic authorship analysis methodologies for speech data
On Monday Dr James Tompkinson (University of York) and I presented our talk on “Assessing the suitability of forensic authorship analysis methodologies for speech data” at the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) 2025 conference at Leiden University (The Hague), where we show some preliminary results about applying…
Read moreExamining an author’s individual grammar
On Monday I delivered a talk at the Comparative Literature Goes Digital Workshop at the Digital Humanities 2025 conference. As part of this talk I have also prepared a tutorial to use our new authorship verification method, LambdaG, to produce text heatmaps to study the idiosyncratic language of an author.…
Read moreAppearance on the Writing Wrongs podcast
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being a guest on the ‘Writings Wrongs’ podcast. The episode covered the events of the Aiya Napa rape case and the evidence I presented at the trial. Like all other episodes, the hosts do an amazing job explaining everything in detail…
Read moreA corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams
The slides and abstract of our talk “A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams” at #CL2025 are now available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15806985
Read moreNew pre-print: “Linguistic Individuality in Lexicogrammatical Alternations”
My PhD student Michael Cameron has uploaded a pre-print of his latest work, “Linguistic Individuality in Lexicogrammatical Alternations”, which shows with a pre-registered experiment how individuals consistently select the same lexicogrammatical variants over time and do this differently from other individuals. This suggests evidence for personalised entrenchment, which is an…
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