Dec
08
The British Journal of Psychology have put together a special issue on person perception. Looking at how far the research has come since 1986 to the present day. The issue focuses on research, in forensic, cognitive and social areas, including articles on topics ranging from face recogntion, voice perception and voice identity, to regional accents’ …
Dec
05
An Italian court has reduced the conviction of a defendant from 1st degree murder to voluntary manslaughter on the basis of a genetic predisposition to violence. The jury were presented with genetic evidence that the defendant was predisposed to violent behaviour and deemed this sufficient enough to reduce their responsibility for the crime they committed. …
Nov
01
The Royal Holloway Eyewitness Group will be welcoming a new member in the near future… Katie Maras completed her PhD at City University London as part of the Autism Research Group and has been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work with Amina at Royal Holloway. The project will be looking at eyewitnesses with …
Oct
21
Forgetting might not be such a bad thing after all…although I’m sure those two dinos would disagree! Research recently published by Benjamin Storm from the University of Illinois in Chicago Memory Lab, suggests that the ability to forget unnecessary information can improve memory and cognitive ability. The Huffington Post discuss this research. Click here for …
Oct
18
The Eyewitness Group had a meeting today and welcomed Dr Jane Herlihy who talked about the important research being conducted at the Centre for the study of Emotion and Law. The CSEL is a charitable research centre which aims to provide high quality applied research to inform legal decision making, particularly in the area of …
Oct
05
Michael Morton was freed on the 4th October 2011 after serving 25 years in prison for murdering his wife. DNA evidence was uncovered which pointed to Morton’s innocence and incriminates an unamed male in the original murder and a subsequent one. New evidence was also uncovered in the case that was not made available to …
Oct
05
American student, Amanda Knox, and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito have been acquitted for the murder of British student, Meredith Kercher. The pair were sentenced for 26 years for the murder of Meredith, who was in Italy on the Erasmus Exchange programme when she was killed. DNA evidence was used to convict the pair, however, …
Sep
22
Troy Davis was convicted for fatal shooting of a police officer in the US state of Georgia in 1989 despite no weapon ever being found and no DNA evidence linking Troy to the murder.The main form of evidence in this case was from eyewitnesses, several of whom have recanted or changed their testimony since the …
Sep
16
The Eyewitness Group said a sad farewell to Gary Dalton last week at a dinner hosted by Amina. They say all good things must come to an end but we are all sad that Gary’s time at Royal Holloway is over. Gary has been a key member of the Eyewitness Group and we wish him …
Aug
30
Jeffrey DeMarco has been awarded a faculty initiative grant of £1200 for the development of a “Youth Task Force Network’ in conjunction with his on-going doctoral research. Whist working with a variety of youth initiatives within the boroughs of London, it is believed that while each organizations mantra & objectives are slightly different, the synergy …
