Hannah Merdian secures funding for EDI bid!

Hannah Lena Merdian (along with Mark Gresswell and Kirsten McKenzie) and won £37k from Health Education England (HEE) for their Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) bid.

The project aims to support BAME and disadvantaged students / recent graduates gain experience and build the CVs to get into Clinical Psychology training.

Todd, Tochs, and Lauren secure research funding!

Congratulations to Todd Hogue, Tochs Onwuegbusi, and Lauren Smith who (in Feb 2021) were successful in securing £20k funding from the National Probation Service via Lincolnshire Police for research into the Lincolnshire Assisting Rehabilitation through Collaboration (ARC) Service.

This includes evaluating the local delivery of ARC and developing and implementing the revised national Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Scheme.

Amanda Roberts publishes two new papers

IAmandan early 2021, Amanda Roberts published the following papers with her colleagues:

Roberts, A., Rogers, J., Sharman, S., Melendez-Torres, G.J., Cowlishaw, S (2021). Gambling problems in primary care: A systematic review and synthesis. Addiction Research & Theory, 29, 454-468.

 

Sharman, S., Roberts, Bowden-Jones, H., & Strang, J,. (2021). Gambling, COVID-19, and Lockdown: Depression, Stress and Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Addictive Disorders. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.621497

This article can be accessed at: Frontiers | Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety | Psychiatry (frontiersin.org)

Georgina publishes new paper on face and voice matching

Georgina has published an new paper in the Jan/Feb issue of ‘Applied Cognitive Psychology’ entitled “Individual differences in face and voice matching abilities: The relationship between accuracy and consistency

 

Abstract

Deciding whether two different face photographs or voice samples are from the same person represent fundamental challenges within applied settings. To date, most research has focussed on average performance in these tests, failing to consider individual differences and within-person consistency in responses. Here, participants completed the same face (Experiment 1) or voice matching test (Experiment 2) on two separate occasions, allowing comparison of overall accuracy across the two timepoints as well as consistency in trial-level responses. In both experiments, participants were highly consistent in their performances. In addition, we demonstrated a large association between consistency and accuracy, with the most accurate participants also tending to be the most consistent. This is an important result for applied settings in which organisational groups of super-matchers are deployed in real-world contexts. Being able to reliably identify these high performers based upon only a single test informs regarding recruitment for law enforcement agencies worldwide.