{"id":1363,"date":"2024-02-26T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/?page_id=1363"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:40:25","slug":"2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/talk-series\/2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2024-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Michaelmas Term, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
DATE<\/th>\nROOM<\/th>\nSPEAKER(S)<\/th>\nTITLE<\/th>\nREGISTER<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
W02, 1500-1550, Thu 17th Oct 2024<\/td>\nBowland North SR02<\/a><\/td>\nDr Sebastian Muth<\/a> (LAEL<\/a>, FACTOR)<\/td>\nLanguage assistance at His Majesty’s Prisons (HMPs)<\/a><\/td>\nLibcal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W03, 1800-2000, Thu 24th Oct 2024<\/td>\nFaraday LT<\/a><\/td>\nDr Isobelle Clarke<\/a> (LAEL<\/a>, FACTOR, SPS<\/a>)<\/td>\nThe shared anti-science discourses<\/a><\/td>\nTryB<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W04, 1500-1550, Thu 31st Oct 2024<\/td>\nBowland North SR20<\/a><\/td>\nHope McVean<\/a> (LAEL<\/a>, FACTOR)<\/td>\nSounds familiar: How does a listener\u2019s familiarity with a voice affect their ability to detect an AI-generated version of that voice?<\/a><\/td>\nLibcal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W05, 1500-1550, Thu 07th Nov 2024<\/td>\nBowland North SR10<\/a><\/td>\nDr Lena Podoletz<\/a> (Law<\/a>, SPS<\/a>)<\/td>\nEmotional AI in action: will it change crime, crime prevention, policing and security, and why this matters?<\/a><\/td>\nLibcal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W07, 1500-1550, Thu 21st Nov 2024<\/td>\nBowland North SR02<\/a><\/td>\nGreta Esposito<\/a> (LAEL<\/a>, FACTOR)<\/td>\nHuman interpretation and machine translation in law enforcement settings<\/a><\/td>\nLibcal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W09, 1500-1550, Thu 05th Dec 2024<\/td>\nBowland North SR02<\/a><\/td>\nDr Hansi Hettiarachchi<\/a> (Computing<\/a>, SPS<\/a>)<\/td>\nTemporal word dynamics for online event detection in social media streams<\/a><\/td>\nLibcal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Lent Term, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
DATE<\/th>\nROOM<\/th>\nSPEAKER(S)<\/th>\nTITLE<\/th>\nNOTES<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
W12, 1500-1550, Tue 21st Jan 2025<\/td>\nCounty South B89 and Teams<\/td>\nDr Kirsty McDougall<\/a> (Cambridge<\/a>)<\/td>\nForensic phonetics and speaker characteristics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W12, 1500-1550, Thu 23rd Jan 2025<\/td>\nWelcome Centre LT1 (A34)<\/a><\/td>\nSophie James<\/a> (LUMS<\/a>, SPS<\/a>) and Professor James Cronin<\/a> (LUMS<\/a>)<\/td>\nDigital dreamscapes & the spectralisation of reality<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W15, 1500-1550, Thu 13th Feb 2025<\/td>\nWelcome Centre LT1 (A34)<\/a><\/td>\nEllen Roberts<\/a> (LAEL<\/a>)<\/td>\nJingle jangle fallacies: observations and learnings from a replication of Biber (1988)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W18, 1500-1550, Thu 06th Mar 2025<\/td>\nBowland North SR10<\/a><\/td>\nDr Tharindu Ranasinghe<\/a> (Computing<\/a>, SPS<\/a>)<\/td>\nOffensive or not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W19, 1500-1550, Thu 13th Mar 2025<\/td>\nBowland North SR10<\/a><\/td>\nMSc students: Flissertation session<\/td>\nClosed session – by invitation only<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W20, 1500-1550, Thu 20th Mar 2025<\/td>\nBowland North SR10<\/a><\/td>\nMSc students: Flissertation session<\/td>\nClosed session – by invitation only<\/td>\nNA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Summer Term, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
DATE<\/th>\nROOM<\/th>\nSPEAKER(S)<\/th>\nTITLE<\/th>\nNOTES<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
W22, 1300-1350, Mon 28th Apr 2025<\/td>\nCavendish Colloquium<\/a><\/td>\nDr Christin Kirchh\u00fcbel<\/a>, Principal Consultant (Soundscape Voice Evidence<\/a>)<\/td>\nWhat\u2019s the (copy)right way? Navigating legal issues around the input and output of large speech and language models<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W22, 1500-1550, Tue 29th Apr 2025<\/td>\nCounty South B89 and Teams<\/td>\nDr Valeriia Perepelytsia<\/a> (UZH)<\/td>\nForensic voice comparison<\/a><\/td>\nOn request<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W24, 1500-1550, Tue 13th May 2025<\/td>\nCounty South B89 and Teams<\/td>\nDr Jessica Wormald<\/a> (University of York)<\/td>\nForensic phonetics<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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