The second in CIRAF's 2026 seminar series Looking forward / Looking back.

Conference Call for Papers Conspiracy Theories & Pseudolaw Queen Mary, University of London Friday 19 June 2026 Conspiracy theories have gone mainstream. What were once seen as fringe concerns are no...

Speaker: Dr. David Griffin

This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful...

The manifestos that frequently accompany mass shootings are usually freely available online within minutes of an attack taking place and remain so for…

The term legal cynicism refers to a type of legal disengagement which is associated with a lack of internal commitment to follow legal rules and a fai…

Language plays a key role in online offending and adversarial interpersonal behaviours. Corpus linguistics is a distinctive and valuable part of the researcher and practitioner toolkit for better unde...

Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…

Prominent figures such as Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are increasingly using social media to unite far-right groups and causes around the world.

This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. It contributes to the growing body of literature on the man...

Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.

Reforming the law

Bringing together scholarship from corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, and criminology, this book offers a nuanced exploration of moral agency in the pre-crime narratives of offenders. The volum...

CIRAF seminar with Chris Allen and Aaron Winter

[Benjamin Thorne is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Criminal Law at the University of Reading] Almost 3 weeks into Donald Trump’s second term as US President and one could have been forgiven fo…

This book combines genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to examine the efficacy of police missing persons appeals to the public.

CIRAF Seminar with Sébastien Tremblay and Ivana Marjanović

The UCL EPSRC Landscape Award (UELA) has studentships available for 2025-26. Applications are now open. Closing date: 13:00 UK time on Tuesday 28 January 2025.