Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Centre of Forensic Interviewing: Staff

Staff attached to the Centre of Forensic Interviewing:

ICJS

Research students

  • Martin O'Neill, Kent County Constabulary
    (Investigators: Who are they? What do they do? What skills do they possess?)
  • Sam Leahy, Home Office and Prof Ray Bull, University of Leicester
    (Investigative interviewing: The suspect’s viewpoint)
  • Nina Westera, New Zealand Police Service and Prof. Mark Kebbell, Griffith University
    (Investigative interviewing: Investigation and evidential perspectives)
  • Sam Poyser, Senior Lecturer
    (The role of the media in remedying miscarriages of justice)
  • Brendan O’Mahony, a registered intermediary
    (Intermediaries and vulnerable defendants)
  • Joanne Richards, a full-time bursary student
    (People with ASD and the best methods for interviewing)
  • Katherine Prescott, a part-time student
    (Interviewing the older adult; Obtaining best evidence)
  • Anita Grzybek, a part-time student
    (Speaking in tongues; the use of interpreters; help or hindrance?)
  • Sean O'Callaghan, a full-time student
    (Interviewing suspects - a US perspective)

Associated Research Supervisors

  • Prof Ray Bull, Director of Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester.
  • Dr Rachel Wilcock, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London South Bank University.
  • Associate Prof Mark Kebbell, B.Sc. (Hons), M.A., Ph.D., CPsychol (Forensic). Chief Investigator ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security and School of Psychology, Griffith University, Australia.
  • Dr Isabel Clare, BSc. (Hons.), M.Phil., M. Phil., Ph.D., AFBPsS, C.Sci., Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, University of Cambridge, Dept of Psychiatry; Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group
  • Dr Coral Dando, Lecturer, University of Lancaster