Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology research is at the interface between psychology and the law. The forensic psychology research conducted by academic staff in the School of Psychology informs decision making around a diverse and range of social, clinical and legal issues.

Forensic psychologists at UNSW provide postgraduate training to develop the field through the Master of Psychology (Forensic) program and offer practical clinical experience through the Wentworth Forensic Clinic.

Our academics are widely published and have been very successful in securing grant funding and developing productive industry partnerships. The forensic psychology research group at the School of Psychology is expanding rapidly in both size and reputation.

People involved

This is a list of the people within the school who are most involved in forensic psychology research. Follow the links for further information including CV’s and current projects.

Richard Kemp

Eva Kimonis

Kristy Martire

Ben Newell

Angela Nickerson

 

 

 

  • Professor Eva Kimonis

    Professor Eva Kimonis

    Research Areas: Developmental psychopathology; child clinical psychology; externalising and conduct problems; aggression and antisocial behaviour; violent offending; development, assessment and treatment of callous-unemotional traits and psychopathy.

  • Professor Thomas Whitford

    Professor Thomas Whitford

    Research Areas: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; schizotypy; understanding the psychological and neurophysiological basis of delusions and hallucinations; understanding the basis of sensory suppression to self-generated actions; Event-Related Potentials (ERPs); Diffusion-Tensor Imaging (DTI).

  • Professor Jessica Grisham

    Professor Jessica Grisham

    Research Areas: Obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding disorder, and related disorders. Comorbidity and classification of anxiety disorders. Investigations into processes that are associated with various types of psychopathology, including emotion regulation and thought suppression.

  • Dr Jenny Richmond

    Dr Jenny Richmond

    My research program addresses the development of memory and emotion during infancy and early childhood and takes a developmental cognitive neuroscience approach. I am particularly interested in the development of relational memory and the role it might play in representational flexibility. My recent work has looked at age-related changes in episodic memory and future thinking during early childhood and the development of rapid facial mimicry in infancy.

Ethics and Sona Resources

Please follow the links below for more information and resources on the Research Participation program for staff and graduate students. You should save each document to your network drive (z: drive) and edit it from there to avoid losing changes.