This year’s FORGE theme is “linguistics in the real world”. Most of our speakers will be discussing and describing how their research and work is used practically, outside of the classroom.

Michaelmas Term, 2022

DATE	ROOM/ LINK	SPEAKER(S)	TITLE	NOTES
W02, 1500-1550, Tue 18th Oct 2022	County South C89 or Teams	Dr Vincent Hughes (York)	Why uncertainty matters in forensics… (phonetics, sociophonetics, and just about everything else)	Co-hosted with PhonLab
W03, 1000-1050, Tue 25th Oct 2022	Bowland North Seminar Room 10	Nicholas Taylor, Senior Principal Analyst (Exploration Division, UK MoD, Dstl)	Careers and Research with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)	Security Lancaster
W04, 1400-1450, Mon 31st Oct 2022	Teams	Prof Tim Grant, Director of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (Aston University)	FoLD: a permanent, controlled-access, online repository for forensic linguistic research	Co-hosted with UCREL CRS
W05, 0900-1030, Tue 08th Nov 2022	InfoLab21 D55	Prof Corinne May-Chahal and Sam Maesschalck (Lancaster University)	Surveillance conversation breakfast session: Police surveillance in social media	Security Lancaster
W07, 1400-1450, Mon 21st Nov 2022	County South C89	Dr Christin Kirchhübel, Principal Consultant (Soundscape Voice Evidence)	Voice Analysis as evidence – the need for competency testing!	Co-hosted with PhonLab
W07, 1400-1500, Fri 25th Nov 2022	Online REG. REQ	Dr George Brown and Dr Christin Kirchhübel (Soundscape Voice Evidence)	Forensic Voice Comparison Short Course For Early-Career Researchers: Problem-Based Learning (Part 1 of 2)	FULL
W09, 1400-1450, Thu 08th Dec 2022	Teams	Dr Shengnan Liu (Lancaster University, CREST)	Assessing hybrid identities in online extremist communities through sociolinguistic styles	Co-hosted with UCREL CRS

Lent Term, 2023

DATE	ROOM/ LINK	SPEAKER(S)	TITLE	NOTES
W11, Mon 16th Jan 2023	Lancaster University campus	External	Contact for further details
W13, all day, Thu 02nd Feb 2023	Lancaster Castle REG. REQ	Dr George Brown and Dr Christin Kirchhübel (Soundscape Voice Evidence)	Forensic Voice Comparison Short Course For Early-Career Researchers: Problem-Based Learning (Part 2 of 2)	FULL
W17, w/c Mon 27th Feb 2023 TBC	TBC	Dr Elisabeth Carter, Director of the Carter & Day Consultancy Ltd, Associate Professor of Criminology, Kingston University	The language of fraud and romance scams

Key

ICON	MEANING
	This talk has been cancelled.
	This talk contains content that some audience members may find disturbing, offensive, and/or otherwise upsetting.
	Strictly no photographs, recording, or real-time broadcasting (e.g. via Twitter) of any kind.