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Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus is a leading academic at Swansea University's Department of Applied Linguistics, holding a Personal Chair since 2011. She serves as the University’s Dean of Postgraduate Research since 2017 and founded the Language Research Centre (2010–2015). Her research focuses on Discourse Analysis in digital and broadcast media, particularly examining cyber-threats, online grooming, terrorism propaganda, and political communication. Key projects include the DRAGON-S initiative (2021–2022), funded by the End Violence Fund, which integrates AI and linguistics to combat child online exploitation. She also contributes to Swansea’s Cyber Threats Research Centre and Digital Humanities Centre.
Her expertise spans corpus-assisted discourse studies, multimodal analysis, and digital manipulation. Notable works include Online Child Sexual Grooming Discourse (2023, Cambridge UP) and Digital Grooming: Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime (2022, Oxford UP). Research highlights include analyzing jihadist magazines (e.g., Inspire/Dabiq), far-right social media strategies (e.g., Britain First), and online conspiracy theory discourse. She has advised on youth justice communication protocols and collaborates internationally across Spain and Latin America.
Dr. Lorenzo-Dus has supervised over 15 PhD students focusing on topics like mock jury deliberations, dialect mapping across UK-Welsh borders, and radical right online communities. She holds editorial roles in journals like Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict and Memory Studies.
