Psychology

Profile

Background

Julie is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology. She was awarded her PhD, on the topic of investigative interviewing of suspects, in 2000.

Teaching responsibilities

Having been Course Leader of the undergraduate BSc (Honours) programmes, Julie is now Course Leader of the distance learning masters programmes MSc Child Forensic Studies: Psychology and Law and MSc Applied Psychology of Intellectual Disabilities. She has taught on Child Forensic Studies since it was developed some 15 years ago and is pleased to be commencing teaching on Applied Psychology of Intellectual Disabilities from Sept 2012. Julie continues to teach and supervise students' research projects on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (including the MSc Forensic Psychology course).

Research

Julie is a member of the International Centre for Forensic Psychology within the Department of Psychology. This is consistent with Julie's research interests, which include police investigative interviewing of child and adult suspects and witnesses, earwitness identification and eyewitness identification (more commonly known as 'identity parades', with earwitnessing relating to those cases in which the perpetrator has been heard rather than seen). Julie's PhD supervision continues to be mainly on the topics of investigative interviewing of suspects and on earwitness and eyewitness identification. However, the main focus of Julie's current research is the investigative interviewing of vulnerable witnesses.

Research grants

Cherryman, J., & Vrij, A. (2001). Offenders' perceptions of the criminal justice system. Successful small grant for £4998 from the Nuffield Foundation.

Cherryman, J., & Martin, A. (2003). Investigative interviewing of vulnerable witnesses: Evaluation of an innovative technique. Funded by the Research Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth. (£1580).

Clarke, C., & Cherryman, J. (2008). Investigating the efficacy of technology in enhancing communication skills learning: Do personality factors constrain the usefulness? £5000, Expert Centre, University of Portsmouth. Oct 2008 to Sept 2010.

Krahenbuhl, S., Blades, M., & Cherryman, J. (2010).  An examination of ‘ground rules’ implementation and associated effects on children’s responses to questions in forensic eyewitness interviews. British Academy, £7,397. April 2010 to March 2011.

In 2003, Julie completed, together with Professor Ray Bull and Professor Graham Davies, both of the University of Leicester, and Dr Becky Milne, of the University of Portsmouth, a project funded by the National Assembly for Wales (£85,000) to provide a set of training materials on 'Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings'.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

Knight, S., Vrij, A., Cherryman, J., & Nunkoosing, K. (2004). Attitudes towards animal use and belief in animal mind. Anthrozoos, 17, 43-62.

Knight, S., Vrij, A., Cherryman, J., & Nunkoosing, K. (2004). Animal use and belief in animal mind. Proceedings of the UFAW International Symposium 'Science in the Service of Animal Welfare', Edinburgh 2003. Animal Welfare, 13, 245-246.

Knight, S., Nunkoosing, K., Vrij, A., & Cherryman, J. (2004). Using Grounded Theory to examine people’s attitudes toward how animals are used. Society & Animals, 11 (4), 307-328. 

Cherryman, J., & Bull, R (2001). Police officers’ perceptions of specialist investigative interviewing skills. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 3, 199-212.

Cherryman, J. & Bull, R. (2000). Reflections on investigative interviewing. In F. Leishman, B. Loveday and S. Savage (Eds.) Core issues in policing (2nd Ed). London: Longman.

Cherryman, J., King, N., & Bull, R. (1999). Child witness investigative interviews: An analysis of the use of children's video recorded evidence in North Yorkshire. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 2, 50-56.

Vrij, A. Mulder, M. R. & Cherryman, J. (1998). Explaining conversation rules as a method to reduce suggestibility of the child witness. In J. Boros, I. Munnich, and M Szegedi (Eds.) Psychology and Criminal Justice: International review of theory and practice. New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Vrij, A., van Schie, E. & Cherryman, J. (1996). Reducing ethnic prejudice through public communication programs: A social-psychological perspective. Journal of Psychology, 130, 413-420.

Bull, R. & Cherryman, J. (1996). Helping to identify skills gaps in specialist investigative interviewing: Enhancement of professional skills. Home Office, Police Department. 75pp.

Conference presentations

Cherryman, J., & Martin, A. (2005). Suggestibility in adults with learning disabilities: The impact of familiar or unfamiliar interviewer. Paper presented at the SARMAC conference, Wellington, New Zealand, January 2005.

Cherryman, J., Bull, R., Vrij, A., & Jarvis, S. (2007). Investigating the effect of a confession on police officers’ evaluations of quality of investigative interviews with suspects. Paper presented at the Interrogations and Confessions: A conference exploring current research, practice, and policy, at the University of Texas at El Paso, September 2007.

Cherryman, J. (2007). Investigative interviewing past and present: The future is up to you! Keynote address at the European seminar in investigative interviewing, University of Teeside, April.

Dunlevy, J. R., & Cherryman, J. (2009). Eyewitness identification in children: Investigating causes of poor performance in target absent line-ups. Presentation given at the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, 2 – 5 September, Sorrento, Italy.

Cherryman, J., & Dunlevy, J. (2009). Children and line-ups: Investigating causes of poor performance and developing remedial strategies. Presentation given at the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, 2 – 5 September, Sorrento, Italy.