Dana Roemling Department of English Language and LinguisticsDoctoral researcher Contact details Emaildxr048@student.bham.ac.ukTwitter@danaroemling PhD title: Validity of German regional dialect markers for authorship profilingSupervisors: Professor Jack Grieve and Dr Bodo WinterPhD English Language and Applied Linguistics Qualifications BA Finnish/Scandinavian & English Studies (University of Cologne) MA Linguistics (University of Duesseldorf) MA Social Research (University of Birmingham) Research My corpus-based study will make use of computational approaches to dialect classification in order to show that social media writing can be used as the basis for regionally profiling authors in a forensic context. Other activities Website https://danaroemling.com Membership International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics / IAFLL (2011 – Present) Positions held (2021 – 2025): Member-at-Large (Executive Committee)- Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics / GSFL (2012 – 2016): Vice President, Webmaster, Roundtable Organiser- International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics / IAFPA (2015 – Present)- Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen / IGDD (2020 – Present)- British Association for Applied Linguistics / BAAL