Jeffrey De Marco
Email: jeffrey.Demarco.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk
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Bio: Jeffrey completed a Bachelors of Science in Psychology with a concentration in Chemistry from McGill University. He pursued an interest in Forensics with a few postgraduate courses, culminating with a Masters in Forensic Psychology. His thesis explored the link between intergroup contact and the police. He is currently in the third year of his PhD at Royal Holloway, supervised by Professor David Denney in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology, and Professor Antonia Bifulco with the Centre of Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS). His doctoral research is focusing on contact, trust and behavioral intentions of adolescents in London, alternative education and attitudes towards the police.
Research Interests: PTSD in violent offenders; application of the contact hypothesis to the Criminal Justice System; public-police relationships; psychopathology during catastrophic events (i.e. war); utility of offender profiling
Jess Darby
Email: jess.darby.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk
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Bio: Jess completed her BSc in Psychology at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, for which she was awarded a First Class Honours. Her research project examined autobiographical memory specificity and social problem solving skills in adults high and low in autism traits. Jess is now in the final year of her PhD in Psychology at Royal Holloway, supervised by Professor Memon. Her research area is episodic future thinking – the ability to mentally project yourself forward to pre-experience events in the future.
Research interests: Future episodic thinking in contexts related to psychology and law, including detection of deception, witness memory and interviewing techniques.
Francesca Ainsworth
Email: Francesca.Ainsworth.2010@live.rhul.ac.uk
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Bio: Francesca graduated in 2009 with a Master of Arts in Psychology from the University of St Andrews. She continued her studies in St Andrews and completed a Master of Research in Psychology during 2010. Her earlier research projects focussed upon memory for faces of ‘missing persons’ and ‘wanted persons’ viewed on posters. She investigated which aspects of these posters have an influence on identification accuracy.
Francesca is in the third year of a PhD in Psychology at Royal Holloway under the supervision of Professor Memon. She is working in the area of eyewitness testimony and memory accuracy, assessing the impact of refreshing a witness’ memory, by viewing or reading their original testimony, on recall accuracy and cross-examination performance.
Research interests: eyewitness memory, face recognition, police interviewing techniques and courtroom practices.
