Tim Grant,
Forensic Section - School of Psychology
University of Leicester,
Leicester, LE1 7RB,
England.
Tel: 0116 252 3658
Fax: 0116 252 3994
Email: TG21@leicester.ac.uk

Teaching

My primary teaching responsibility is on the distance learning MSc courses in Applied Forensic Psychology and Forensic and Legal Psychology for further details please go here.

Research

Forensic Authorship Attribution

My main research area is Forensic Authorship Attribution and this is the subject of my PhD due for submission Autumn 2002.

This was the subject of my MSc thesis

Grant, T. D. (1992). Evaluation of the CUSUM Method for the Attribution of Authorship in a Forensic Context. Unpublished MSc, University of Birmingham, Birmingham.

and I have also have a few publications and presentations in the area:

Grant, T. D., & Baker, K. L. (2001). Identifying reliable, valid markers of authorship: a response to Chaski. Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 8(1), 66 - 79. (Prepublication offprint)

Grant, T. D. (2001). Reviewing and Revising Stylometric Authorship Attribution for use in a Forensic Context. Paper presented at the International Association of Forensic Linguistics 5th Biennial Conference, University of Malta

Grant, T.D. (2002) [Review of the book Foster, D (2001) Author unknown: on the trail of anonymous (2nd ed.)] Forensic Linguistics: The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law 9(1),119 - 121 (Prepublication offprint)

Link to my general reference list on authorship attribution work

Other research includes:

Grant, T.D. & Dajee, K. (November 2002 status: In Press) Types of task, types of audience, types of actor.  Interactions between mere presence and personality type in a sample mathematical task. Personality and Individual Differences (Prepublication offprint)

Tim Grant's Home Page:http://www.grant-family.org/tim_home.html