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We are a dynamic hub for research, specialist teaching, and consultancy within the area of forensic and clinical psychology.

We seek to advance psychological theory and knowledge in legal and wellbeing contexts and to address real-world issues by developing and testing evidence-based interventions and solutions.

Psychologists in this research group work closely with local and international external agencies such as police forces, prisons, charities, and NHS Trusts.

Group members

• Fiona Gabbert (group leader)
• Gordon Wright
• Adrian Scott
• Caoimhe McAnen
• Lucy Oldfield
• Lorna Goddard
• Ashok Jansari
• Rebecca Charlton

Research highlights

Outputs

• Powell, A., Scott, A.J., & Henry, N. (2020). European Journal of Criminology, 17(2), 199-223
• Gabbert, F, Hope, L, Luther, K, Wright, G, Ng, M, Oxburgh, G. (2020). Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), 329-341
• Davies, E., Read, J., & Shevlin, M. (2021).  Childhood adversities among students at an English University: A latent class analysis.  Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, in press
• Florez, E., Cohen, K., Ferenczi, N., Linnell, K. J., Lloyd, J., Goddard, L., Kumashiro, M., & Freeman, J. (2020). ournal of Positive School Psychology, 4(1), 92-104
• Hørlyck, L.D., Obenhausen, K., Jansari, A., Ullum, H., Miskowiak, K.W. (2021). . Journal of Affective Disorders

Grants

• Fiona Gabbert is working with colleagues (Sunderland University) and (Northumbria University) to develop a secure computer programme - The Forensic Interview Trace (FIT)© - designed to record the structure, content, and characteristics of a forensic interview, funded by a Defence and Security Accelerator grant
• Fiona Gabbert and colleagues, (Swansea University) and (University of Portsmouth) have been awarded a grant from the Road Safety Trust to develop a Self-Administered Interview to capture the best information from witnesses to serious road traffic collisions
• Adrian Scott is part of a team investigating Revenge pornography with funding from an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant

Research dissemination

• Alice Jones Bartoli has been interviewed for
• Fiona Gabbert presented a talk titled ‘’ to the Deception Research Society
• Ashok Jansari has developed a series of on a range of topics in psychology/neuroscience
• Fiona Gabbert advised on the development and drafting of New Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering () that will support the United Nations in the legal prohibition of torture and coercive interrogation practices

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