| Intro | British linguist and educator |
| Is |
Linguist Educator |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type |
Academia Literature Social science |
| Gender | female |
Sue Blackwell is a British linguist and educator.
Education
Blackwell graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge in Classics and Anthropology. Later, she earned an M.Phil. in Linguistics at Darwin College, Cambridge; and Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham.
Career
For 20 years, she taught English at the University of Birmingham and become a Research Fellow, before becoming a self-employed consultant with a firm she founded, the “Language Consultancy Desk.”
Her research interests include child language acquisition, critical discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics. She is also an active campaigner for international human rights.
In August of 2015, she began teaching Forensic Linguistics at the Vrije University, Amsterdam. She has written for various journals and has contributed chapters to works in Forensic Linguistics, including:
- An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (2007, Authors: by Malcolm Coulthard and Alison Johnson, ISBN 0-203-96971-5)
- The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2012, Edited by American linguist, Carol Chapelle)