This recorded interview with Professor Tim Grant outlines his interdisciplinary academic path—from philosophy of language and cognitive science to a master’s dissertation that empirically evaluated a court‑used authorship identification method, demonstrating its failure, and subsequently developing a more robust system that formed the basis of his PhD research. It also details his role in establishing and expanding the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, now the largest global consortium of forensic linguists.
Bears on: authorship & stylometry · concepts & methods