The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector
Report
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2022)
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum
Executive summary
This report presents findings from two research projects exploring the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on third sector justice organisations and workers in ...
The importance of detailed context reinstatement for the production of identifiable composite faces from memory
Journal Article
Fodarella, C., Marsh, J. E., Chu, S., Athwal-Kooner, P., Jones, H. S., Skelton, F. C., …Frowd, C. D. (2021)
The importance of detailed context reinstatement for the production of identifiable composite faces from memory. Visual Cognition, 29(3), 180-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1890292
Memory is facilitated by reflecting upon, or revisiting, the environment in which information was encoded. We investigated these “context reinstatement” (CR) techniques to imp...
Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure
Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Jones, H. S., Jones, B. C., Fodarella, C., …Logan, K. (2020)
Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000257
We investigated the impact of congruency between the witness interview and method used to construct a composite face. Experiment 1, using a typical feature-by-feature composi...
When They See Us: Why did the Central Park Five give false confessions?
Digital Artefact
Watson, F. (2019)
When They See Us: Why did the Central Park Five give false confessions?. [Newspaper article]
The impact of external facial features on the construction of facial composites
Journal Article
Brown, C., Portch, E., Skelton, F. C., Fodarella, C., Kuivaniemi-Smith, H., Herold, K., …Frowd, C. D. (2019)
The impact of external facial features on the construction of facial composites. Ergonomics, 62(4), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1556816
Witnesses may construct a composite face of a perpetrator using a computerised interface. Police practitioners guide witnesses through this unusual process, the goal being to ...
Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator
Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Patel, K., Labonté, K., Battersby, K. L., Frowd, C. D., Ball, L. J., …Vachon, F. (2017)
Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(3), 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000101
Cell-phone conversation is ubiquitous within public spaces. The current study investigates whether ignored cell-phone conversation impairs eyewitness memory for a perpetrator....
Facial Composites: Aligning Interview Techniques and Construction Procedures using PROfit
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F. (2017, June)
Facial Composites: Aligning Interview Techniques and Construction Procedures using PROfit. Paper presented at Bridging the Gap: Applied Face Recognition, Stirling, UK
The impact of auditory face descriptions on recognition of own- and other-race faces
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., Marsh, J., Frowd, C., & Crawford, J. (2016, July)
The impact of auditory face descriptions on recognition of own- and other-race faces. Paper presented at European Association of Psychology and Law annual conference, University of Toulouse
The impact of morphing on own- and other-race facial composites
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., Forwd, C., Walkden, S., & Bowling, J. (2015, August)
The impact of morphing on own- and other-race facial composites. Paper presented at European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), University of Nuremberg
The impact of changing state speech on person identification
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., Marsh, J., Frowd, C., Vachon, F., & Thorley, R. (2014, September)
The impact of changing state speech on person identification. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham