About me
I am consultant forensic linguist .
I hold a PhD in Forensic Linguistics from Aston University (UK), and I am a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Text Analysis at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL).
I am a member and past president of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) and a Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences (MCSFS). I hold CUBS (Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness) certificates, and I am an Associate member of the Expert Witness Institute.
QEDforensics
Forensic Linguistic Analysis
QED Limited (trading as QEDforensics) is a private limited company based in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
QEDforensics offers forensic linguistic analysis services to the corporate and intelligence sector.
My Research Interest
My academic research interest is authorship analysis in deceptive contexts.
This covers the language of faked texts, authorship style, and linguistic strategies associated with meaning and misrepresentation.
Recent Publications:
Picornell, I. (2026) “We will get you”: linguistic ideology, power and the distortion of meaning in Twitter discourse, Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 12(2), 59-78
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Picornell, I (2026) The Linguistics of Analysing Deception in Written Texts. Elements in Forensic Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Picornell, I (2026) Ethics and Professional Conduct Oversight in Forensic Linguistics Expert Evidence. In I. M. Nick and Kirsty E. Blewitt (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics. Routledge.