About

In 2018, the Forensic Linguistics Short Course started as a one-time-only project of the Student Council of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Cologne, Dr Isabel Picornell, and Dr Ria Perkins. As the program received an unexpectedly high number of applications as well as highly positive feedback from participants, the coordinators decided to make the Forensic Linguistics Short Course an annual summer school. In late 2021, the summer school became official part of the Association for Diversity in Linguistics. It is currently organised in cooperation with the English Language and Linguistics Department at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and FörderLinK Düsseldorf e.V.

An important feature of the Forensic Linguistics Short Course is that it is a strictly non-profit project. Neither the coordinators nor the summer school’s partners receive any share of the participation fees. The fee is solely used to cover expenses such as lecturers, meals and snacks, beverages, and excursions (and online tools for the online version). Hence, we are trying to keep the fees as low as possible and still to be able to offer you a great experience when participating. Any leftovers are used to maintain this website and help organise other events of the association.

Substantial parts of the summer school’s schedule are intensive sessions on pertinent areas of forensic linguistics, an open poster session, and events introducing local culture.