I teach in the School of Science, Society and Management. My teaching and research interests lie in developmental psychology, criminology and investigative techniques. I have published in these areas and presented criminology related projects at the Annual British Psychological Society (BPS) Conference.
My underlying approach to understanding criminal behaviour and criminality is of a biological-cognitive nature but I am fairly eclectic and entertain social explanations of criminal behaviour too. Topics that I find interesting within developmental psychology are: implications of attachment theory and imprinting (face recognition), theory of mind and moral development especially as these have interesting roles for antisocial behaviour.
My current research interests include the influence of extra-legal defendant characteristics (such as attractiveness) on mock jurors' decision making; improving face recognition performance and crime scene analysis of incarcerated serial killers using FBI offender profiling trait matching. I have also been involved with research on lateralisation of perception of emotion in faces in individuals with and without autism.

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