She is a professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.
As part of the £5 million ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS),[3] Hardaker has investigated different manifestations of online abuse, including strategies, motivations, and responses.
[28][29] Her research has been discussed in the House of Commons,[30] and she has written for The Guardian and The Observer,[31] The Independent,[32] The Conversation,[33] the Political Studies Association,[34] among others.
Hardaker serves on the editorial board of Internet Pragmatics,[35] directs the Forensic Linguistics Research Group (FORGE)[36][37] at Lancaster University, is the co-creator of the free software, FireAnt, designed to collect, filter, and export Twitter data,[38] and she publishes a monthly podcast entitled en clair.
[39][40] Hardaker's ESRC-funded research on online abuse, undertaken within Lancaster University's Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS) subsequently assisted CASS in being awarded The Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.