51cg

Biography

I received my PhD at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Following my PhD, I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Thompson Rivers University, Canada, with Prof Heather Price. I joined the 51cg in 2022, where I am now a Lecturer. I am also a Board Member and Chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC).

My primary research and teaching interests are in Experimental Psychology & Law/Forensic Psychology. With my research, I aim to address questions related to how people remember unique and repeated experiences and help define practices that can be used by investigators to effectively elicit information. My current projects involve the use of immersive virtual reality to study eyewitness memory for interpersonal conflict in the context of domestic abuse.

Please feel free to contact me about research, potential collaborations, and/or PhD supervision.​

Research Overview

• What kind of memory-based decisions do people make in specific situations?
• How well can people remember events after they have experienced several occurrences?
• How to best approach interviewing if we want to obtain as complete and as accurate reports as possible?

In the Applied Memory and Cognition Lab we aim to address questions related to how people remember unique and repeated experiences and help define practices that can be used by investigators to effectively elicit information. To do so, we study the basic cognitive processes that impact memory-based decisions, situational factors that affect memory reports such as interviewing formats, social influences on memory such as cultural schemata or collaborative remembering, and applied implications associated with accurate and inaccurate memory.

Funding and Grants

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada): Insight Development Grant (2022)
• American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS): Grant in Aid for Early Career Professionals, Caregiver Grant (2021)
• University of Portsmouth: PhD Bursary (2014-2020), Research and Innovation Committee Grant (2019), Postgraduate Reserach Students Conference Bursary (2019)
• Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC): Student Caucus Research Grant (2017-2019), Student Travel Grant (2015)
• ERASMUS: Internship Bursary (2014)
• Charles University: Internal Grant of the Faculty of Arts (2012), Special Purpose and Internship Scholarship (2011)
• Foundation Alzheimer: Travel Grant (2012)

Teaching Responsibilities

I am L3 Theory Course Convenor for the following courses:

• PS3011 Psychological Assessment
• PS3012: Perception
• PS3014: Biological Psychology
• PS3518: Developmental Psychology
• PS3519: Memory & Language
• PS3520: Social Psychology

I lecture on the following courses:

• PS2017 Advanced Psychology A - Concepts And Theory, Individual Differences Stream: Applications of Individual Differences
• PS4547/5547 Forensic Psychology (Lecturer)

I am a tutor on the following courses:

• PS3011 Psychological Assessment
• PS3522 Methodology B

I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students:

• PS4019 Psychology Thesis
• PS4038 Psychology Joint Honours Thesis
• PS5903 MSc Research Project
• PS5017: Research Project For Postgraduate Students In Psychology (MRes)
• Psychology PhD Students