Research · teaching · open science
Experimental psychologist studying judgement, deception, emotion and how we draw conclusions from evidence.
I am a Lecturer (Education) in Psychology and Criminology at King's College London, within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). My work connects experimental psychology, forensic decision-making and rigorous quantitative methods.
Psychology · Criminology · Open scienceI investigate how people evaluate social information under uncertainty — particularly judgements about truthfulness, the authenticity of emotional expressions and the credibility of others.
My research combines experimental designs with statistical modelling, including signal detection theory and Bayesian approaches, to distinguish the questions researchers ask from the quantities their analyses actually estimate.
I am also committed to open research, statistical literacy and making research methods more accessible to students and researchers. Alongside my research, I lead research methods teaching for undergraduate Psychology and Criminology students at King's.
My interests cross experimental psychology, forensic applications and the methods used to draw defensible conclusions from behavioural data.
Judgement & communication
How people distinguish truths from lies; the impact of response bias, social information and uncertainty; and the use of signal detection theory to model veracity decisions at the trial level.
Emotion perception
How genuine and deliberate expressions are produced and interpreted, including dynamic displays, rehearsal, emotion intensity and individual differences in authenticity discrimination.
Psychology & law
How witness emotionality and gender shape credibility judgements and memory-related outcomes, alongside methods for analysing information elicited during investigative interviews.
Quantitative practice
Statistical estimands, Bayesian analysis, count-data models, robustness and uncertainty. I develop practical examples and resources that help researchers match their analyses to their questions.
Current funded work: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2024–2026), Variability in Deception Detection Research, investigating how the number of senders and judges affects the precision of veracity judgements.
Peer-reviewed articles and selected research outputs, drawn from my November 2026 CV. Search or filter the list; titles link to publishers or available preprints where recorded.
For comprehensive indexing, see my ORCID record. Publication details and final versions should be confirmed with the linked publisher.
I teach research design and quantitative methods and work to make methodology both rigorous and meaningful for students.
King's College London · current
Module leadership for Research Methods for Psychologists and Criminologists, including research design, statistical reasoning and how to connect analyses to substantive research questions.
Teaching leadership
Supporting the research methods provision on the BSc Psychology and Criminology and coordinating Graduate Teaching Assistant needs and support within the department.
Previous appointments
Prior module leadership and teaching across psychology, criminology, investigative psychology, forensic psychology and applied quantitative methods at Kingston and Teesside universities.
Research supervision
Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research, doctoral supervision and examination, and invited workshops on methods, uncertainty and open science.
Teaching philosophy: An analysis is useful only when it answers the question being asked. This principle runs through my teaching, workshops and open educational resources.
Small, practical resources that make statistical ideas, open science and research communication easier to explore, alongside a few older projects from earlier stages of my research.
A searchable archive of daily posts on statistics, methodology and open research, bringing together entries across Mastodon, Bluesky and X.
Interactive visual explanations of trimmed means, Winsorisation, data exclusion and the difference between estimands in independent and paired comparisons.
My Substack for writing about research methods, statistical interpretation and the practical problems of scientific inference.
These projects reflect earlier strands of my work and give a quick sense of the questions that have shaped my research trajectory over time. Click a title to reveal the image and description.
This strand of work examined how user-generated trust and reputation information affects decision-making accuracy and bias in sharing-economy environments. It focused on the psychological consequences of digital identity cues and the ways people form judgements about strangers in peer-to-peer platforms.
It also connected behavioural science with questions about online markets, economic interactions and the design of information environments.
A large portion of my earlier research investigated how emotional expressions are produced, faked and interpreted. This included the distinction between genuine and deliberate displays, the dynamics of facial expressions, and the cues people use when deciding whether an emotion appears authentic.
That work helped lay the foundation for later projects on deception, social judgement and the limits of intuitive behavioural inference.
This research explored how witness emotionality and gender shape credibility judgements, perceived accuracy and susceptibility to misinformation. The broader goal was to understand how courtroom and investigative assumptions about emotion can distort the evaluation of testimony.
It remains closely linked to my current interests in witness evidence, applied forensic psychology and more defensible behavioural inference.
In this work I examined how the presence of handcuffs and related contextual cues influence people’s judgements of deception and guilt. The project highlighted how seemingly peripheral features of a setting can alter perception, bias inference and change the way communicative behaviour is interpreted.
It formed part of a broader research programme on nonverbal communication, social judgement and decision-making under uncertainty.
Appointments and qualifications, with dates updated from my current CV.
King's College London · IoPPN
Kingston University
Kingston University
Teesside University
Financial Computing & Analytics Group · University College London
Computer Science · University College London
University College London · Emotions and deception detection
University College London
Goldsmiths, University of London
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy · Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
I advocate more transparent research, careful statistical reasoning, useful feedback and accessible methods training.
Knowledge sharing
Organising and supporting discussions, workshops and learning resources on contemporary research methods, statistical interpretation and open science.
Open research
Contributions to UKRN activity, including service as a local network lead at Kingston University and participation in the wider open research community.
Academic service
Former Chair of Kingston University's Research Ethics Committee and Faculty Research Ethics Lead; journal peer reviewer and external examiner for Bangor University's MSc Psychology and MSc Neuroscience programmes (2025–2027).
Public engagement
Writing, public scholarship, podcasts and expert commentary on deception detection, emotional witness evidence, methodological myths and statistical inference.
For academic enquiries, workshops, research collaborations and invitations, email me at King's College London. You can also find me on the platforms below for writing, updates and open-science content.
