You are welcome to join the online webinar titled “Introduction to Linguistic Strategies and the Mendez Principles” on February 11st 2026 at 10AM CET.
In this webinar, Professor Georgina Heydon, former President of the International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics, will share her top tips for interviewers based on over 20 years of research into the language of police interviewing. Participants will learn how to see the interview from a new perspective that highlights the use of conversational strategies to accomplish the goals of the Mendez Principles. This session will cover:
how we do things with words;
the ‘speaker roles’ we play in an interview;
conversational turn-taking for a successful free narrative;
topic management;
linguistic tools for assessing voluntary confessions.
Details with direct web link will follow soon in the new year.