The FCRG are delighted to welcome Charlotte Wesson to the team. Charlotte has recently begun her PhD at the University of Lincoln (under the supervision of Prof. Todd Hogue). Her research involves developing novel measures to understand and assess human sexuality, including deviant sexual interests. We look forward to hearing more on Charlotte’s work as it unfolds.
Prof. Todd Hogue has been invited to give the opening keynote presentation at the 7th Cracow Conference of Psychology and Law in Poland on Saturday 11th October. Prof. Hogue will presenting his research on the use of cognitive measures (in particular eye-tracking) to measure and assess offence-related sexual interests.
The conference program can be accessed here
What: One-day professional training workshop
Title: āInternet-based Sex Offending: Case Formulation and Intervention Planningā
When: 20th November, 2014
Where: Hamilton House, London
OnlinePROTECT is a research and development group led by psychologists Dr. Hannah Merdian (University of Lincoln) and Prof. Derek Perkins (University of Surrey and West London Mental Health NHS Trust) that addresses the safety of children and young people in online and offline environments. The programme focuses specifically on those who view and produce child exploitation material (CSEM) and aims to gain insight into who the offenders are, examining the possible causes that led them to offend in the first place.
OnlinePROTECT invites professionals working in the assessment, treatment, management, and rehabilitation of offenders who used to the internet to sexually offend against children and young people to a one-day workshop on case formulation and intervention planning. Based on their research on CSEM offenders, onlinePROTECT developed the Pathway Model of CSEM offending. Workshop attendees will hear about the latest research developments on internet-based sex offending, be trained on the pathway model, receive a range of practical assessment tools for their client work, and be able to discuss their own case material and issues.
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Within the School of Psychology and the FCRG here at UoL, Dr Amanda Roberts will soon be setting up a centre for gambling research. In the current October issue of The Psychologist, a news story was written about Amanda’s plans for the new centre (see here). In the article, Amanda explains that the focus of the centre is “on understanding the psychological causes and effects of gambling, including addictive gambling, risk-taking behaviour, treatment programmes and the impact of new technologies such as betting smartphone apps” (p. 735).
This is a very exciting development that will certainly place the University of Lincoln on the map for gambling and risk-related research. We are eager to hear more and will keep you posted as things move forward.
In a new nextgenforensic post, Ross Bartels discusses sexual offender cognition. Specifically, he argues that there has been a heavy focus on distorted cognitions related to sex. Drawing upon some existing research and theory, Ross highlights the importance of understanding antisocial (non-sexual) cognition. As a result, he calls for researchers to start exploring sexual offenders’ cognitions that are not sex-specific but which have an aetiological role in their offending behaviour.
Read the full post here
Ross is an Associate Editor of nextgenforensic, which is an academic community blog for the next generation of researchers and practitioners that want to communicate their ideas and work to a wider audience. If you wish to contribute, please click here for more info.