A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right
UKRI-funded project · Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
About the project
A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right is an interdisciplinary project led by Dr Isobelle Clarke at Lancaster University. It brings together corpus-assisted discourse analysis, forensic linguistics and cybersecurity to study how far-right groups communicate and organise online. By comparing linguistic repertoires and patterns of online activity across groups, the project maps variation within far-right extremism and develops evidence-based indicators to support offender prioritisation and inform law-enforcement training.
My role
I am the project’s Research Associate – Statistician. My work focuses on the statistical side of the project:
- Developing and evaluating zero-inflated models and multivariate statistical methods for sparse text and language data, where many features occur rarely or not at all in individual texts.
- Contributing to statistical software package development that makes these methods available to the wider research community.
- Supporting team training in quantitative methods, and contributing to manuscripts and research outputs.
Updates
- Oct 2026: Joined the project as Research Associate – Statistician.