Claire Hardaker (linguist) explained

Claire Hardaker
Birth Date:January 16, 1981
Birth Place:Dewsbury, United Kingdom
Discipline:Linguist
Sub Discipline:
Workplaces:Lancaster University
Alma Mater:Lancaster University
Doctoral Advisor:Jonathan Culpeper
Thesis Title:Trolling in computer-mediated communication: Aggression and deception online
Thesis Url:https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/hardakec/hardaker_c_2012_trolling_in_cmc_impoliteness_deception_manipulation.pdf
Thesis Year:2012
Awards:Part of the team awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education
Children:3

Claire Hardaker (born 16 January 1981) is a British linguist. She is senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research involves forensic linguistics and corpus linguistics. Her research focuses on deceptive, manipulative, and aggressive language in a range of online data. She has investigated behaviours ranging from trolling and disinformation to human trafficking and online scams. Her research typically uses corpus linguistic methods to approach forensic linguistic analyses.

She has worked in the Department of Linguistics and English Language[1] at Lancaster University since 2013.

Career and research

Hardaker received her MA in Language Studies in 2007, and her PhD in Linguistics in 2012 from Lancaster University. She taught English Language and Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire as an associate lecturer, and then as a lecturer from 2007 to 2012. In 2013 she took a position as lecturer in Forensic Corpus Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Forensic Corpus Linguistics in 2017.[2]

Hardaker has been principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator (CI) on research grants from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). As part of the £5 million ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS),[3] Hardaker has investigated different manifestations of online abuse, including strategies, motivations, and responses.[4] Hardaker has also been CI on projects funded by Her Majesty's Government,[5] and co-researcher on research funded by the European Commission, investigating anti-trafficking, and the deployment of anti-trafficking funds across the European Union.[6]

Hardaker has appeared on television and radio,[7] [8] and in documentaries,[9] [10] [11] podcasts,[12] [13] [14] and print media around the world[15] [16] [17] on topics ranging from online abuse,[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] to the Word of the Year,[23] to the language of children online,[24] [25] [26] [27] to the decryption of the Voynich manuscript.[28] [29] Her research has been discussed in the House of Commons,[30] and she has written for The Guardian and The Observer,[31] The Independent,[32] The Conversation,[33] the Political Studies Association,[34] among others.

Hardaker serves on the editorial board of Internet Pragmatics,[35] directs the Forensic Linguistics Research Group (FORGE)[36] [37] at Lancaster University, is the co-creator of the free software, FireAnt, designed to collect, filter, and export Twitter data,[38] and she publishes a monthly podcast entitled en clair. Each episode typically covers a case involving forensic linguistics, language mysteries, literary detection, decryption of codes and undeciphered languages, and other forms of linguistic intrigue.[39] [40]

Awards and honors

Hardaker's ESRC-funded research on online abuse, undertaken within Lancaster University's Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS) subsequently assisted CASS in being awarded The Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.[41]

Personal life

Hardaker was born in Dewsbury, and grew up in the small village of Tyersal in Bradford. She attended Tong High School until 1995, and sat her A Levels at Bradford College. She has a son and identical twin daughters.

Selected publications

External sources

• Faculty web page at Lancaster

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Linguistics and English Language (LAEL) . lancs.ac.uk . 9 August 2019.
  2. Web site: I was changing a nappy when call for help came . lancasterguardian.co.uk . 9 August 2019.
  3. Web site: The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) . lancs.ac.uk . 30 March 2015 . 9 August 2019.
  4. Web site: Twitter rape threats and the discourse of online misogyny . gtr.ukri.org . 9 August 2019.
  5. Web site: Claire Hardaker – CV – grants . lancs.ac.uk . 9 August 2019.
  6. Web site: Comprehensive Policy Review of Anti-Trafficking Projects . ec.europa.eu . September 2016 . 9 August 2019.
  7. Web site: BBC Newsnight – The Twitter trolls who threaten rape – we try to catch one . BBC . English . 29 July 2013 . 9 August 2019.
  8. Web site: BBC Radio 4 – Women's online misogyny . BBC . English . 14 August 2013 . 9 August 2019.
  9. Web site: BBC – Blurred Lines: The New Battle of the Sexes . BBC . English . 23 May 2014 . 9 August 2019.
  10. Web site: Channel 4 to air Elliot Roger documentary, The Virgin Killer . channel4.com . English . 13 June 2014 . 9 August 2019.
  11. Web site: BBC – The Anti-Social Network . BBC . English . 6 February 2013 . 9 August 2019.
  12. Web site: Tech Weekly Podcast 2013: Understanding the internet troll . theguardian.com . English . 10 July 2013 . 9 August 2019.
  13. Web site: Tech Weekly Podcast 2014: Understanding the internet troll . theguardian.com . English . 8 October 2014 . 9 August 2019.
  14. Web site: The Naked Scientists: Are You Safe Online? . thenakedscientists.com . English . 22 August 2019 . 8 September 2019.
  15. Web site: Brazil – Veja – Trolagem: a marca da maldade na web . veja.abril.com.br . Portuguese . 9 August 2019.
  16. Web site: China – QQ – 《新政治家》杂志：铲除网络空间的"恶" . view.news.qq.com . Chinese . 9 August 2019.
  17. Web site: The Netherlands – JOOP – Trollen doen het vooral uit verveling . joop.bnnvara.nl . Dutch . 9 August 2019.
  18. News: Internet trolls face up to two years in jail under new laws . BBC. 18 October 2014 . English . 9 August 2019.
  19. Web site: Twitter Makes Tweaks To Limit Abuse And Abusers . techcrunch.com . 21 April 2015 . English . 9 August 2019.
  20. News: Sky News may face Ofcom inquiry after complaints over death of McCann 'troll' . theguardian.com . 6 October 2014 . English . 9 August 2019. Booth . Robert . Conlan . Tara .
  21. News: The internet is often vile, but we can make it civilised . ft.com . 2 August 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  22. Web site: Who are the trolls? . newstatesman.com . 29 July 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  23. News: 'Post-truth' declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries . BBC . 16 November 2016 . English . 9 August 2019.
  24. News: A dictionary to decipher kids' chat lingo . timesofindia.indiatimes.com . 12 September 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  25. Web site: Parents baffled by children using 'noob' and 'tekkers' in online chat . The Daily Telegraph.co.uk. 10 September 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  26. Web site: Derp, YOLO and Jank make it in to new dictionary . The Daily Telegraph. 12 September 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  27. Web site: Reem! Two-thirds of parents confused by online slang . metro.co.uk . 11 September 2013 . English . 9 August 2019.
  28. Web site: How the Voynich manuscript hit the headlines . historyextra.com . English . 9 August 2019.
  29. Web site: Voynich code cracked? . languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu . English . 9 August 2019.
  30. Web site: Daily Hansard, Westminster Hall . English . 26 February 2013 . 9 August 2019.
  31. Web site: The Guardian author profile – Claire Hardaker . theguardian.com . English . 9 August 2019.
  32. Web site: The Independent author profile – Claire Hardaker . independent.co.uk . English . 9 August 2019.
  33. Web site: The Conversation author profile – Claire Hardaker . theconversation.com . English . 9 August 2019.
  34. Web site: TWITTER: WHERE FREE SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP CAN BE SYNONYMS . psa.ac.uk . English . 9 August 2019.
  35. Web site: Internet Pragmatics . benjamins.com . English . 9 August 2019.
  36. Web site: Forensic Linguistics Research Group (FORGE) . wp.lancs.ac.uk . English . 9 August 2019.
  37. Web site: Lancaster University's Linguistics & English Language Department Research Groups . lancs.ac.uk . English . 9 August 2019.
  38. Web site: FireAnt: Filter, Identify, Report, and Export Analysis Toolkit . laurenceanthony.net . English . 9 August 2019.
  39. Web site: en clair: forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, and more . podcasts.apple.com . English . 9 August 2019.
  40. Web site: en clair: forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, and more – ways to listen . wp.lancs.ac.uk . November 2018 . English . 9 August 2019.
  41. Web site: Royal approval for Lancaster University linguistics centre . thevisitor.co.uk . 2 March 2016 . 9 August 2019.

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