Tochukwu Onwuegbusi (Tochs), Lauren Smith, and Todd Hogue from the FCRG recently attended and presented several papers at the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (3-8th July, 2023).
Tochs presented some quantitative data of their ARC project
Lauren presented about a project on meeting the needs of autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities in Midlands (UK)
Tochs, Lauren, and Todd gave fascinating on Assisting Rehabilitation through Collaboration: A review
On June June 5th 2023, FCRG member Dr Hannah Merdian presented an invited online talk entitled “OnlinePROTECT – Pathways of Risk and Offender Typologies in the Exploitation of Children via Technologies” to the Medical School Berlin.
The presentation provided an overview of OnlinePROTECT’s research programme, focusing in particular on two current research projects: (1) Circles UK is an international organization providing rehabilitation and rehabilitation services for sex offenders. This offer has now also been extended to online offenders. (2) StopitNow UK provides intervention and prevention work for online offenders, including through an anonymous hotline and therapeutic and psychoeducational offerings.
FCRG members, Dr Tochukwu Onwuegbusi and Prof Todd Hogue (along with Prof Amanda Roberts and an ex-Lincoln colleague) have a published a new paper entitled “An Eye Tracking Investigation of Young People’s Gaze Behaviour to Gambling and Non-Gambling Moving Adverts” in the journal European Addiction Research.
The study involved applying a novel data-driven methodology (that directly tracks eye movements) to reveal attentional biases towards gambling adverts and promotions by examining differences in young people’s eye gaze behaviour when watching gambling and non-gambling (control) moving adverts. The results showed that the new data-driven method can: (1) isolate video clips that best distinguish people on the low-high craving spectrum, (2) reveal the type of each video clip with the largest group differences, and (3) accurately predict young people’s gambling craving on the basis of eye movement patterns.
FCRG members Michelle Smith and Lauren Smith, along with Amanda Roberts (Psychology), Tom George, and Jim Rogers (Health and Social Care) were awarded £658 from the University’s Policy Hub Fund to employ a PGT student to undertake a paid literature review on: The barriers and successes of accessing healthcare services amongst people who experience homelessness.
This will feed into an externally funded project with local charity, developmentplus.
Congratulations to Rachael Dagnall, Lauren Smith, along with associate member Rachael Mason (in Health and Social Care) for being awarded £1000 from Ladder4Life to assist in a small evaluation of their training delivery.
They deliver training to housing and health professionals on Psychologically Informed Environments.
