Professor in Psychology
I am a Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the Psychology Department at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. My main interest is memory, in particular, aspects of episodic and autobiographical memory. But the question that bothers me most is this: How and why do people come to believe in and remember entire events or aspects of events that never happened? Much of my research has theoretical implications for how we understand memory, and informs professionals working in legal or clinical contexts.
Since 2016, I have served as the Executive Director of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition , known as SARMAC. SARMAC aims to promote and support outstanding research, and encourages collaboration between basic and applied researchers in the field of memory and cognition. Along with colleagues at Warwick in the Law and Business Schools, I co-founded Warwick’s Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR). I currently serve as the Co-Director of COPR alongside Prof Jackie Hodgson (Warwic