Dr Elisabeth Carter

Associate Professor of Criminology Kingston University

Dr Elisabeth Carter is the world’s first criminologist and forensic linguist, conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language and the law. She examines how interactional, ethical, and social drivers are manipulated by fraudsters, and the intricate balancing act between power and persuasion, credibility, and vulnerability. She is best known as the UK’s foremost scholar on romance fraud, however she uses interactional methodologies to unpick persuasion and manipulation in fraudulent communications of all types. Elisabeth has been awarded the Tackling Economic Crime Award (TECAs) for Outstanding Tackling Economic Crime Professional and can be regularly found bringing the reality of fraud to life on television series and radio, including on BBC One, ITV, Radio 4, Channel 5 and Paramount+. She uses her cutting edge research to advance academic understandings of economic crime, and across the public, private and third sector through informing law enforcement campaigns, driving police operations, and delivering practical strategies that disrupt the power of fraudulent communications and pervasive negative narratives of victimhood.