This year’s FACTOR theme is “forging cross-disciplinary links”. This year’s invited speakers come from different disciplines in Security & Protection Science and beyond to present work that can meaningfully inform linguistics and security research.

Michaelmas Term, 2024

DATE	ROOM	SPEAKER(S)	TITLE	REGISTER
W02, 1500-1550, Thu 17th Oct 2024	Bowland North SR02	Dr Sebastian Muth (LAEL, FACTOR)	Language assistance at His Majesty’s Prisons (HMPs)	Libcal
W03, 1800-200, Thu 24th Oct 2024	Faraday LT	Dr Isobelle Clarke (LAEL, FACTOR, SPS)	The shared anti-science discourses	TryB
W04, 1500-1550, Thu 31st Oct 2024	Bowland North SR20	Hope McVean (LAEL, FACTOR)	Sounds familiar: How does a listener’s familiarity with a voice affect their ability to detect an AI-generated version of that voice?	Libcal
W05, 1500-1550, Thu 07th Nov 2024	Bowland North SR10	Dr Lena Podoletz (Law, SPS)	Emotional AI in action: will it change crime, crime prevention, policing and security, and why this matters?	Libcal
W07, 1500-1550, Thu 21st Nov 2024	Bowland North SR02	Greta Esposito (LAEL, FACTOR)	Human interpretation and machine translation in law enforcement settings	Libcal
W09, 1500-1550, Thu 05th Dec 2024	Bowland North SR02	Dr Hansi Hettiarachchi (Computing, SPS)	Temporal word dynamics for online event detection in social media streams	Libcal

Lent Term, 2025

DATE	ROOM	SPEAKER(S)	TITLE	REGISTER
W12, 1500-1550, Tue 21st Jan 2025	County South B89 and Teams	Dr Kirsty McDougall (Cambridge)	Forensic phonetics and speaker characteristics
W12, 1500-1550, Thu 23rd Jan 2025	Welcome Centre LT1 (A34)	Sophie James (LUMS, SPS)	The final frontier of dark tourism: Digital dreamscapes and the spectralisation of reality
W13, 1500-1550, Thu 30th Jan 2025	Welcome Centre LT1 (A34)	Meg Malcolm (Psychology, FACTOR)	Truths and tactics: Investigating ADHD and deceptive behaviour
W14, 1500-1550, Thu 06th Feb 2025	Welcome Centre LT1 (A34)	Dr Christin Kirchhübel, Principal Consultant (Soundscape Voice Evidence)	What’s the (copy)right way? Navigating legal issues around the input and output of large speech and language models
W15, 1500-1550, Thu 13th Feb 2025	Welcome Centre LT1 (A34)	Ellen Roberts (LAEL)	Jingle jangle fallacies: observations and learnings from a replication of Biber (1988)
W17, 1500-1550, Thu 27th Feb 2025	Bowland North SR10	MSc FLiSS student session	Closed session – by invitation only
W18, 1500-1550, Thu 06th Mar 2025	Bowland North SR10	Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe (Computing, SPS)	Offensive or not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?
W19, 1500-1550, Thu 13th Mar 2025	Bowland North SR10	MSc FLiSS student session	Closed session – by invitation only