<p><a href="" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">* Warning: Today’s episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse material. *</a></p><p> </p><p>In today’s episode, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Prof. Tim Grant are joined by Dr Emily Chiang, one of our Research Fellows at AIFL, about her research into identity performance in online child sexual abuse conversations. </p><p>By tracing 17 different personas from a single perpetrator, Dr Chiang explored linguistic differences in identity performance and online grooming strategies. Together, Dr Chiang and our hosts go over how her research may help future grooming and child sex abuse cases.</p><p> </p><p>Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">[email protected]</a> and we may answer it during an upcoming episode!</p><p> </p><p>Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: <a href="https://medium.com/@AIFLblog" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://medium.com/@AIFLblog</a> </p><p> </p><p>If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free resources:</p><p> <a href="https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.helpguide.org/find-help" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.helpguide.org/find-help</a> </p><p> </p><p>Production Team: Mark Round, Jordan Robertson, Neus Alberich Buera, Karolina Placzynta</p><p>Sound: Mark Round</p><p>Editing: Nicci MacLeod</p><p>Visual design: George Grant</p><p>Additional Voices: Karolina Placzynta</p><p>With our thanks to Dr Emily Chiang and Dr Zoe Adams</p><p> </p><p>Professor Tim Grant’s home page: <a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-grant" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Tim Grant - Aston Research Explorer</a></p><p> Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page:<strong> </strong><a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/nicci-macleod" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Nicci MacLeod - Aston Research Explorer</a></p><p> Dr Emily Chiang’s home page: <a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/emily-chiang/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Emily Chiang - Aston Research Explorer</a></p><p> </p><p>Both Tim and Emily are part of the Europewide Horizon SALVUS project looking at the investigation of online child abuse and exploitation across Europe. You can find out more about the SALVUS project here: <a href="https://salvusproject.eu" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://salvusproject.eu</a> </p><p> </p><p>Research Papers:</p><p><a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/publications/deceptive-identity-performance-offender-moves-and-multiple-identi/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Deceptive identity performance: Offender moves and multiple identities in online child abuse conversations</a></p><p> <a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/publications/online-grooming-moves-and-strategies/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Online grooming: moves and strategies</a> </p><p> <a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/publications/do-perverted-justice-chat-logs-contain-examples-of-overt-persuasi/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Do Perverted Justice chat logs contain examples of Overt Persuasio</a><a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/publications/do-perverted-justice-chat-logs-contain-examples-of-overt-persuasi/">⁠</a><a href="https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/publications/do-perverted-justice-chat-logs-contain-examples-of-overt-persuasi/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">n and Sexual Extortion? A research note respondingto Chiang and Grant 2017 and 2018.</a></p>