Dr Isobelle Clarke

Lecturer - Security and Protection Science

Research Overview

My research interests include corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, sociolinguistics and news discourse and discourse analysis. My previous research covers language variation on social media, especially Twitter. I also have experience in authorship analysis. My current research examines the representation of Islam in the press. I am also investigating second learner language and spoken language. I have received Leverhulme's early career researcher fellowship to investigate anti-science discourses, such as anti-vaccination discourse, climate change denials, and anti-GMO discourse.

Ai and Trust:
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

FACTOR Summer School 2025: Language, Speech, and AI
Symposium

Using Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis to Explore the Shared Anti-Science Discourses across Websites Known to Promote Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories
Invited talk

The specific impostor’s method for authorship analysis: The case of Nikolaos Karvounakis
Invited talk

Lancashire Cyber Education Week 2025
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Understanding (in)effective security communications: A case study of anti-science narratives
Invited talk

Co-occurrence is key: Trolls, Trump, Tyranny, and the Taliban
Invited talk

The shared anti-science discourses
Invited talk

The shared anti-science discourses
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The discourses of vaccination across pseudoscience and conspiracy theory websites
Oral presentation

Comparing the discourses across anti-science websites
Invited talk

Language Abuse in the Digital Age
Invited talk

Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis Workshop
Invited talk

The specific imposters method in the case of Nikolaos Karvounakis: A comparative forensic authorship analysis
Invited talk

The case of Nikolaos Karvounakis: A comparative authorship analysis of a claim of responsibility
Invited talk

Using keyword co-occurrence analysis to track the discourses of HPV vaccination on Twitter over time
Invited talk

Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Corpus Linguistics Research
Invited talk

How to do Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis workshop
Invited talk

Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis
Invited talk

Masterclass on ‘Multi-Dimensional Analysis’
Invited talk

Using keyword co-occurrence analysis to reveal the discourses of climate change across pseudo-science and conspiracy websites
Invited talk

Approaching Discourse in Corpora using Multiple Correspondence Analysis
Invited talk

Masterclass on ‘Stylistic variation on the @realDonald Trump Twitter account’
Invited talk