Postgraduate Programme in Forensic Linguistics (Forensic Linguistic Technical Studies)

This programme trains expert professionals who work in the interface between applied linguistics, law and new technologies. Barcelona, February 2013

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Direction

• M. Teresa Turell 
  

  Doctorate in Catalan Philology and Professor of English Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University. Master in Forensic Linguistics. Head of the UVAL Group at the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA). Director of ForensicLab, the Institute's forensic linguistics laboratory. Specialist in plagiarism detection, authorship determination and attribution of written texts and trademark litigation. She has published numerous articles, given a number of talks on different aspects of Forensic Linguistics and acted as an expert witness in over 60 civil and criminal cases in Spain and the United States. President of the IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) since 2011. Co-editor of Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2008). Author of a number of articles and book chapters, and a frequent speaker in forums dedicated to the field of Forensic Linguistics, both in the United States and in Europe.

  For more information, visit http://www.iula.upf.edu/forensiclab/fpreses.htm
  

Co-ordination

• Jordi Cicres 
  

  Doctorate in Applied Linguistics (Forensic Phonetics), Master in Forensic Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University, and Degree in Catalan and Spanish Philology from the University of Girona. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Girona and a researcher and collaborator at ForensicLab, the Forensic Linguistics Laboratory of the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA - Pompeu Fabra University). He specialises in forensic phonetics (the identification of speakers and construction of linguistic profiles), on which he has published several articles and given a number of talks and presentations. For more information, visit

  http://www.iula.upf.edu/forensiclab/fpreses.htm

Teaching staff

• Francesc Ariza 
  Private Detective, Security Director and Consultant, expert in forensic evidence, judicial proceedings and forensic medicine. Master's in Criminology and Forensic Science Consultancy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008-2009). Director of a research agency since 1987. He has promoted the following conferences organised by ForensicLab and held at the Institute for Applied Linguistics (Pompeu Fabra University): "The Use of Linguistic Evidence for Forensic Purposes: concepts, methods and applications" (24-25 April 2003), "Second European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law" (14-16 September 2006) and "Second International Workshop on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law. Present dimensions and new perspectives and challenges" (9 July 2010).
• Jordi Cicres 
  

  Doctorate in Applied Linguistics (Forensic Phonetics), Master in Forensic Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University, and Degree in Catalan and Spanish Philology from the University of Girona. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Girona and a researcher and collaborator at ForensicLab, the Forensic Linguistics Laboratory of the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA - Pompeu Fabra University). He specialises in forensic phonetics (the identification of speakers and construction of linguistic profiles), on which he has published several articles and given a number of talks and presentations. For more information, visit

  http://www.iula.upf.edu/forensiclab/fpreses.htm

• Malcolm Coulthard 
  He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham and Aston University, and has been Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics (Aston University) since its foundation. He founded the International Association of Forensic Linguists, of which he was the first President. He was also the first founder and editor of the journal Forensic Linguistics, now called The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. He has participated as an expert witness in more than 200 cases and many trials in England, Germany, Hong Kong and Northern Ireland. He co-authored the work An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (2007) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics (2010).
• Carlos Delgado Romero 
  Official with the Spanish National Police Corps. Head of the Forensic Acoustics Laboratory. Diploma in Voice Identification from the Institute of Voice Identification at Michigan State University. Expert in voice identification and other acoustic analysis from the International Association for Identification (IAI). Doctor of Forensic Phonetics, and author of the first thesis on this subject in Spain: La identificación de locutores en el ámbito forense ("The Identification of Speakers in the Field of Forensics"). He has been Vice-President of the Voice identification and Acoustic Analysis Subcommittee of the IAI for seven years, and Vice-President of the Working Group for Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) for four years. He promotes the European Union-funded SMART project (Statistical Methods Applied to the Recognition of the Talker).
• Cristòfol Rovira Fontanals 
  

  Assistant Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in the field of Library and Information Science. He is currently researching the development of new knowledge management tools in digital environments such as conceptual maps. He forms part of the research group DIGIDOC of the University Institute for Applied Linguistics. He is Co-Director of the almanac hipertext.net and Director of the online Master in Digital Documentation at IDEC. More information on www.cristofolrovira.com

• M. Teresa Turell 
  

  Doctorate in Catalan Philology and Professor of English Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University. Master in Forensic Linguistics. Head of the UVAL Group at the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA). Director of ForensicLab, the Institute's forensic linguistics laboratory. Specialist in plagiarism detection, authorship determination and attribution of written texts and trademark litigation. She has published numerous articles, given a number of talks on different aspects of Forensic Linguistics and acted as an expert witness in over 60 civil and criminal cases in Spain and the United States. President of the IAFL (International Association of Forensic Linguists) since 2011. Co-editor of Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2008). Author of a number of articles and book chapters, and a frequent speaker in forums dedicated to the field of Forensic Linguistics, both in the United States and in Europe.

  For more information, visit http://www.iula.upf.edu/forensiclab/fpreses.htm
  

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