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Isobelle Clarke
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Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
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I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
www.ukri.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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aifl.bsky.social
‼️ 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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corpussocialsci.bsky.social
💥An action-packed morning at #LancsSS25 ! With talks from @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social , @issyclarke.bsky.social , @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social , a practical session on collocations and the launch of #Lancsbox X 5.5.0!
June 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
issyclarke.bsky.social
I'll take that...
April 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a
April 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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aifl.bsky.social
A forensic meteorologist?! ⛅

@issyclarke.bsky.social shares what they do in our podcast 'Writing Wrongs' (www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...), featuring @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social. You can't miss it!
March 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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rachellevessey.bsky.social
Last chance to register for the Zoom link! Join us tomorrow for Professor Chris Hart's lecture "Using the NewsScape Corpus to Explore Multimodal Meaning-Making in TV News Communication About Immigration". Hosted by our department of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University.
April 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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perkinskeighley.bsky.social
In this episode of the Writing Wrongs #podcast from @aifl.bsky.social, @timgrant123.bsky.social & @issyclarke.bsky.social discuss their experience of doing an authorship analysis to help the police identify the builder of a crude bomb.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6nay...
Imposters Tending To The Wild with Dr Isobelle Clarke
Writing Wrongs · Episode
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March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and "the new normal" on social media

🆕 out today w/@issyclarke.bsky.social & the www.traccovid.com team @mybcu.bsky.social

📄 doi.org/10.1515/ling...

🔓 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
First page of journal article entitled "COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media" in the journal Linguistics Vanguard Abstract Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus Online Visual Dashboard) project. The TRAC:COVID dashboard combines methods from corpus linguistics with various visualization techniques to enable users to explore approximately 84 million posts containing reference to COVID-19 published between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2021 (encompassing the dates of UK coronavirus lockdowns). The dashboard and all sampling considerations (including an overview of the detailed search query used) are available at https://www.traccovid.com. Specifically, the paper analyses a subsample of posts that make reference to vaccines and contain at least one hashtag relating to various categories of dis/misinformation. By employing keyword co-occurrence analysis – a method for examining statistically significant keywords using multiple correspondence analysis – we find that these posts draw on various “discourses of liberty” to protest against perceived infringements on “health freedoms” through the imposition of new norms of behaviour (e.g., mask-wearing).
March 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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aifl.bsky.social
Episode 3 discusses a contemporary Scottish terrorism case, and the linguistic work by Tim and
@issyclarke.bsky.social that contributed to the investigation. Tim and Isobelle talk about how they assisted to help resolve the case.
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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emma-putland.bsky.social
Looking forward to welcoming both in person and online attendees to Lancaster for our 2025 health and science communication workshop series this March! We've got great speakers and fascinating topics lined up...

For more information and to register, see: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...
February 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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✨ Out now in Linguistics Vanguard ✨
Thrilled to share "Using ATLAS.ti to interpret keyword co-occurrence analysis: a case study on the representation of vaccin* across pseudoscience and conspiracy websites", co-authored with my amazing PI @issyclarke.bsky.social !
➡️ www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
February 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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corpussocialsci.bsky.social
We’re the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University.

Follow along for updates, insights, and a closer look at the power of language.

#LanguageMatters #CorpusLinguistics
January 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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tonymcenery.bsky.social
What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
Cambridge Core - Discourse Analysis - Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
www.cambridge.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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timgrant123.bsky.social
On top of this publication today, I'd just like to say that editing this series is the best fun I've had as an academic for many years.

Tammy Gales and I started it in the dark days of 2020 and with 13 published and 12 in the pipeline we've been busy.

#academicsky
timgrant123.bsky.social Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · Nov 21
Delighted to announce the publication of the Cambridge Element

"Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case"

by Julia Kupper, Marie Bosjen-Moller, Tanya Karoli Christensen, @dakwing.bsky.social , Marcus Papadopulos and Sharon Smith

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Decoding Terrorism
Cambridge Core - Law: General Interest - Decoding Terrorism
www.cambridge.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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instantlinguist.bsky.social Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 19
I need a Starter Pack with everyone who writes stuff on their to-do list *after* they've done it so they can cross sth. off because these are my people! 📝✔️🙃
November 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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instantlinguist.bsky.social
I need a Starter Pack with everyone who writes stuff on their to-do list *after* they've done it so they can cross sth. off because these are my people! 📝✔️🙃
November 19, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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lukeccollins.bsky.social
New paper co-authored with @elenasemino.bsky.social
in Language and Health: A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain

Open Access and available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
Front page of an article in Language and Health
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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aifl.bsky.social
Trust us, you don't want to miss this week's Thursday seminar: '"You need to work her down to the bone": how seduction experts project an image of trustworthiness' with Annina Van Riper from the University of Birmingham.
It's hybrid! You can now get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/584eraxz
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Issy Clarke is maintaining the starter pack of forensic linguists. If you'd like to be included, let her know.
issyclarke.bsky.social Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️

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November 16, 2024 at 4:08 PM
issyclarke.bsky.social
Hello fellow forensic linguists, I thought I'd create a little space for us all. I'm new here so let me know if I've not seen you and need adding ❤️

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November 16, 2024 at 10:08 AM