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Tahmineh Tayebi is a Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University's Department of Communication and Culture, and a core member of the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL). Since 2024, she serves as Director of Undergraduate English and English Language and Literature programmes. She leads the HALO (Harmful and Abusive Language Online) research cluster, focusing on linguistic dimensions of online hate speech and dangerous ideologies. Her expertise spans pragmatics, im/politeness theory, cyberbullying, and forensic discourse analysis.
Education: PhD in Linguistics (Monash University, Australia), MA and BA in Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (University of Isfahan, Iran). She holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2020 and serves as an external examiner at the University of Reading.
Research interests include offensive language dynamics, victim perspectives in online abuse, and cultural conceptualizations of politeness. Notable contributions include studies on Persian im/politeness markers and frameworks for analyzing hate speech in digital contexts. She has secured £4,000 in seed funding for research on anti-abortion social media campaigns.
Teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate modules such as Language of the Law, Discourse Analysis, and Forensic Linguistics. She supervises multiple PhD projects addressing gender-based violence rhetoric, shooter manifestos, and transphobic discourse. Her work appears in journals like International Journal of Language and Culture and Journal of Politeness Research.
Awards include the Monash Graduate Scholarship (AUD 25,392) and Monash International Postgraduate Scholarship (AUD 119,864). Media contributions include podcasts on online abuse and blog posts for The Conversation.
