Dawn Archer

Dawn Archer is a Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, serving as Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator for Languages, Information and Communications. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Lancaster University (2003) and has supervised 9 postgraduate completions in areas like forensic linguistics, emotional intelligence, and communication in professional contexts.

• Expertise in corpus linguistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics, and discourse analysis
• Consultant for Investigation Discovery's Faking It: Tears of a Crime series (2017-2018)
• External Examiner roles at Liverpool University and Sheffield Hallam University

Her research focuses on linguistic behavior in high-stakes scenarios including police crisis negotiation, deception detection, and mental health communication. She has developed pragmatic annotation schemes and corpus tools like VARD, and her publications span Shakespearean language analysis to schizophrenia-related discourse studies.