Dr Nicci MacLeod

Reader in Forensic Linguistics - Aston University

PhD, GDipLaw, FHEAJoined March 2026

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Forensic linguistics Legal Criminal Language of investigative interviews Police interviews with victims of sexual offences Police and defence solicitors Language analysis

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Nicci is reader in forensic linguistics at Aston University.

She completed her PhD in 2010 at Aston University on the language of police interviews with women reporting rape.

Nicci is deputy director of the AIFL and vice president of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics.

She has provided expert forensic linguistic reports for defence teams and to several police forces, including the Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the NCA), as well as the Independent Police Complaints Commission (now the IOPC).

Nicci has appeared as an expert witness in the Crown Court of England and Wales and both the Sheriff Court and High Court of Justiciary in Scotland.

She has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications on various topics in forensic linguistics, including the 2020 book (co-authored with Tim Grant) Language and Online Identities: The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime.

Nicci has appeared on BBC One’s Expert Witness and is co-host of the podcast Writing Wrongs.

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