PROFESSOR BECKY MILNE - BSC (HONS) PHD CPSYCHOL CSCI AFBPSS; PROFESSOR OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY; UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

Professor Becky Milne
BSc (Hons) PhD CPsychol CSci AFBPsS; Professor of Forensic Psychology;
University of Portsmouth

Becky Milne is Professor of Forensic Psychology. A chartered forensic psychologist and scientist and Associate Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, she is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Police Science and Management and is on the editorial
boards for the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling and the British Journal of Forensic Practice. Becky is one of the
Academic lead members of the Association of Chief Police Officers Investigative Interviewing Strategic Steering Group and is Deputy Chair
of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group. She has worked closely with the police and other criminal justice
organisations (in the UK and abroad) through training of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview, Witness Interview Advising and also in the
interviewing of vulnerable groups (Tier 3 and 5) and providing case advice. Becky was part of a team who developed the Achieving Best
Evidence Document (Home Office, 2007) National guidance regarding how best to interview vulnerable and intimidated witnesses and
victims. Becky was given the 2009 Tom Williamson award for outstanding achievements in the field of investigative interviewing by ACPO.

Becky recently opened the Centre of Forensic Interviewing: Research and training in investigative interviewing for all types of investigator
at all stages of their career, from the basics to advanced interview skills and master classes. The Centre also enables students to
participate and examine interviews being conducted. The Centre will also host research projects and will provide an exciting opportunity
to conduct new avenues of work in this field which will in turn help to inform the training provided to the practitioners. The Centre
encompasses state of the art digital interview recording suites.

Dr John Fox MSc PhD
Member, National Policing Childhood Death Working Group; Independent
Serious Case Reviewer/Author; Police Assessor to the Victoria Climbie
Inquiry; University of Portsmouth

John is a Senior Lecturer in Police Studies within the ICJS. He was awarded his MSc (with distinction) in Criminology and Criminal Justice
by the University of Surrey, and his PhD in the discipline of Sociology also by University of Surrey with research concerning police
investigative techniques and guidance, and homicide investigation in the UK and US.

Before joining the team in ICJS, he was a senior police detective and subsequently was employed for 6 years as an associate tutor by the
College of Policing to train senior homicide detectives on the SIO Development Programme. He is currently a member of the National
Policing Childhood Death Working Group and has represented ACPO on various Government working parties and committees concerning
child abuse and related issues. From 2001 to 2003 he was Lord Laming’s police advisor and assessor, on the Victoria Climbie Inquiry. He
has carried out a number of Serious Case Reviews into child deaths.

DSI Scott MacKechnie
Detective Superintendent; Head of Public Protection, Hampshire Police

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Sue Gower MBE JP MA PGCE QTLS GPR(P) FCIM
Kent Safeguarding Childrens Board

Sue Gower MBE is the Learning and Development Manager/Child Death Co-ordinator for Kent Safeguarding Children’s Board.
Sue has significant experience of working at both national and local level within children’s’ services. She is an LGA Peer Reviewer and a
former member of the Children’s Commissioner’s Audit and Risk Committee.

Dr Kevin Smith PhD, CPsychol
National Vulnerable Witness Adviser, National Crime Agency

Kevin retired from the Metropolitan Police with 30 years service in June 2008. He currently works in the Specialist Operations Centre at
the National Crime Agency as the National Vulnerable Witness Adviser and is regularly deployed operationally to develop interview
strategies for victims and witnesses in complex cases. He also oversees the witness intermediary matching service.
He sits on the NPCC National Strategic Steering Group for Investigative Interviewing, the Ministry of Justice Vulnerable and Intimidated
Witnesses Working Group and the Intermediary Registration Board for England and Wales.

Professor Ray Bull
University of Derby, Honorary Fellow, British Psychological Society

Ray Bull is Professor of Criminal Investigation (part-time) at The University of Derby. In 2014 he became elected President of the
European Association of Psychology and Law. In 2010 Ray was “Elected by acclaim” an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological
Society (this honour is restricted to a maximum of 40 living psychologists).
In 2009 Ray received from the 'International Investigative Interviewing Research Group' the 'Senior Academic Award' for his 'significant
lifetime contribution to the field of investigative interviewing'. In 2008 Ray received from the European Association of Psychology and
Law the ‘Award for Life-time Contribution to Psychology and Law’.
He has authored/co-authored over 200 research publications and has advised a large number of police forces in several countries, as well
as testifying as an expert witness in many court cases.

Dr Julie Cherryman PhD
Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Portsmouth

Julie has worked in the Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth since the early 1990's and is Course Leader of two Masters'
courses (MSc Child Forensic Studies: Psychology and Law, and MSc Psychology and Learning Disability) both of which are delivered via
distance learning.
The main focus of her research and teaching concerns the topic of investigative interviewing, and this includes completing her PhD on
Specialist Investigative Interviewing (Professor Ray Bull was her Director of Studies). Julie, along with Dr Lucy Akehurst, is currently
evaluating the efficacy of experienced vulnerable witness police officers' self evaluation of their Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) interviews
with vulnerable witnesses. Julie and Lucy are excited about this research and plan to present the findings at this conference.

Dr Brian Chappell MA DCrimJ FHEA
University of Portsmouth

Brian Chappell is currently an independent criminal justice consultant and part time senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth,
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, where he has taught at both undergraduate and post graduate level. His specialisms include criminal
investigation; intelligence; organised crime; ethics, leadership and management in intelligence and investigations.
Previously, he completed a thirty-year career with the Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard, where he was a senior detective
and operational head within the Specialist Crime Directorate. He has operational and management experience of all aspects of proactive
investigation, intelligence development, analysis and related specialist training to police departments, overseas law enforcement and
external agencies. This also includes national and international strategic experience in the development of best practice and human rights
compliance in relation to covert policing. He has also led capability building projects for a number of international law enforcement
agencies. He holds a Doctorate of Criminal Justice (DCrimJ) from the University of Portsmouth and a MA in Intelligence and Security
Studies from Brunel University.

Dr Stephanie Bennett Ph.D. CPsychol, FHEA.
University of Portsmouth

Dr Stephanie Bennett earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Plymouth in 2012. Following numerous research associate
and teaching roles at Plymouth, from 2008-2011 she worked as a research psychologist for the charity Down Syndrome Education
International (DSEI) in Portsmouth. Stephanie’s Ph.D. thesis explored the complex relationships between secondary school aged children’s
vocational interests and cognitive abilities over a two year time period, and also examined the interrelationships between the different
types of vocational interests.
Stephanie currently works at the University of Portsmouth as a Learning Development Tutor specialising in quantitative research
methodology and analysis, and also as an Associate Lecturer in Psychology for the Open University. Stephanie has just completed a M.Sc.
in Crime Science Investigation and Intelligence also at Portsmouth, with a research focus exploring forensic interviews with child
trafficking victims. Stephanie’s current research focuses are broad, and she consults and provides support to a wide range of research
studies currently underway in the Institute of Criminal Justice studies in Portsmouth, including the large scale disaster simulation ‘Exercise
Unified Response’ with London Fire Brigade.

Dr Karen Shalev-Greene
Director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons,
University of Portsmouth

Dr. Karen Shalev Greene is a Senior Lecturer with the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She served in
the Israeli Air Force Intelligence between 1991-1993. She graduated with a B.A. in Criminology and English literature from Bar Ilan
University, Israel in 1997. She then graduated with an MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 1999 and with a
PhD in Investigative Psychology in 2004.
She is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons, founded in May 2012. She collaborates on various research projects
with Police agencies, Police forces, NGO’s and other academics in the field from the UK and internationally. She is the lead editor of
Missing Persons: A Handbook of Research (2016).

Dr Lucy Akehurst
University of Portsmouth

In 1993, Lucy graduated with a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree and commenced research for a PhD programme (HEFCE funded) at the
University of Portsmouth. Her PhD research involved liaison with legal professionals, police officers and social workers. Five empirical
studies investigated numerous issues regarding the detection of deception including nonverbal cues to deceit, the analysis and application
of Criteria-Based Content Analysis and the perceptions of people with regard to cues to deceit.
Subsequently, Lucy took a Research Associate post at the University of Wales, Swansea working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project
with Dr Mark Blagrove entitled, 'The influence of sleep loss, personality and confidence on eyewitness suggestibility'. After this, she
joined the Department of Psychology at Portsmouth and is currently a Senior Lecturer.

Professor Penny Cooper
The Advocate’s Gateway

Penny Cooper, a former practising barrister, became a professor of law in 2009 and is very widely published on vulnerability and witness
evidence. She created registered intermediary training, devised the ground rules hearing approach to witness evidence and co-founded
and chairs The Advocate's Gateway. Best practice guidance on theadvocatesgateway.org has been widely endorsed by the senior judiciary
and applied internationally. Penny’s research resulted in the Criminal Procedure Rules' requirements for ground rules hearings. She
teaches judges, intermediaries, police and legal practitioners and advises law firms, government departments and organisations in many
jurisdictions on getting the best evidence from witnesses.
Penny is an academic associate at 39 Essex Chambers, an honorary visiting professor at City University, London, a visiting professor at the
University of Roehampton and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London.
Penny’s current research compares psychological, legal, evidential and procedural aspects of investigative interviewing with courtroom
cross examination. Her PhD by publication is supervised by Professors Becky Milne and Ray Bull. Her other research interests include:
Vulnerability in the courts and effective participation of witnesses and defendants; Cross-examination; Forensic Interviewing; Autism
Spectrum Disorder; and, Procedural Fairness.

Ruth Marchant
Developmental Psychologist and Registered Intermediary, Triangle

Ruth has a background in direct work with children. Since 1985 she has specialised in work with very young children and children with
complex communication needs. Ruth has consulted with children on a wide range of issues and developed particular knowledge and
expertise in evidentially careful communication. She has been directly involved in more than 500 forensic interviews or trials with children
aged under six; children with communication impairments or children who are severely traumatised.
Ruth has taught and published widely on these issues, including contributing the guidance on interviewing very young children,
psychologically disturbed children and disabled children within Achieving Best Evidence (CJS 2003, 2007, 2011), and the Practice Guidance
on Assessing Disabled Children within the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need (Department of Health 2000). She has a first
degree in developmental psychology and have since undertaken training in a range of assessment, interviewing and communication
methods.
Ruth is a founding director of Triangle. Triangle works to enable the best evidence of children across the UK, and also teach, publish and
consult on these issues. Ruth undertakes forensic interviews with children instructed by the police, local authorities or the family courts.
She is also a Registered Witness Intermediary with the Ministry of Justice, providing communication support to very young children and
disabled children in their involvement with the police and the courts. Ruth leads multidisciplinary teams providing expert opinion to the
family courts for Triangle.

Dr Michelle Mattison
University of Chester; Registered Intermediary

Michelle gained her bachelors and masters degrees in Forensic Psychology at Teesside University in 2009 and 2010, respectively. In 2011,
she was awarded a three-year PhD scholarship by Lancaster University. Michelle’s PhD examined the use of drawing to support episodic
memory during police interviews. Her research had a particular focus upon vulnerable people, namely, typically developing children, and
children with autism spectrum disorder.
Michelle works directly with children and adults who have complex communication needs, such as autism spectrum disorder, learning
disability, and physical disability. Michelle is a Registered Intermediary with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Ministry of Justice,
and also, an Intermediary for Triangle. As an intermediary, she facilitates communication with vulnerable victims, witnesses, and
defendants during police investigations and during criminal trial proceedings. Michelle also writes and contributes towards national best
practice guidance about working effectively with vulnerable people in the criminal justice system. In 2016 Michelle assisted Professor
Penny Cooper with the implementation of the first intermediary pilot scheme in Australia, and provided concurrent expert evidence
about the use of intermediaries to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Dr Kimberley Collins
Teesside University; Registered Intermediary

Dr Collins is a senior lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Teesside University.     Her research and teaching focuses on the forensic
interviewing of children and children’s testimony in court.
Dr Collins also works as a Registered Intermediary where she works with the police and courts in the UK to help facilitate best evidenc e
from vulnerable witnesses and defendants. She is also a trained forensic interviewer and works as an expert witness for court.

Dr Clare Allely
University of Salford

Dr Clare Allely is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, and is an affiliate member of the Gillberg
Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Clare is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Medical,
Veterinary and Life Sciences affiliated to the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Allely holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Manchester and has previously graduated with an MA (hons.) in Psychology
from the University of Glasgow, an MRes in Psychological Research Methods from the University of Strathclyde and an MSc degree in
Forensic Psychology from Glasgow Caledonian University. Between June 2011 and June 2014, Dr Allely worked at the University of
Glasgow as a postdoctoral researcher.
Current research projects and interests include: autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice system and research into brain injury or
neurodevelopmental disorders in forensic populations.

Charlie Orrell
Registered Intermediary, Triangle

Charlotte Orrell is a speech and language therapist, Registered Intermediary with a specialism in autism.
She has recently led the re-write of the Advocate’s Gateway toolkit about questioning someone with autism. She has also chaired the
Ministry of Justice’s Registered Intermediary Reference Team (RIRT) between 2015 and 2016. This is a stakeholder consultation group that
represents the Registered Intermediary community nationally. Charlotte also works as a forensic interviewer and trainer for Triangle.

Professor Kim Knott
Lancaster University

Kim Knott is Professor of Religious and Secular Studies, Lancaster University, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Evidence
on Security Threats (CREST).
She specialises in the things, places, events and groups that people hold to be sacred, and is interested in how these are expressed in
people’s beliefs and values, in public rhetoric, rituals, the built environment and the media. When do they become matters of contention,
conflict or a threat to security? Her background is in the history and sociology of religions, and she has researched and directed projects
on migration and diasporas, media portrayals, the urban sacred, religion in modern Britain, and religious/secular relations. She has also
developed a spatial methodology for studying religion which has been widely used internationally. In CREST, she leads a research
programme on how ideas, beliefs and values are transmitted in different contexts, including the family and between peers.

Professor Miet Vanderhallen
Antwerp University / Maastricht University

Miet Vanderhallen is an associate professor legal psychology at Antwerp University (Belgium) and an assistant professor criminology at
Maastricht University (the Netherlands). In 2007 she finished her PhD on ‘the working alliance in police interviews’. Her main research is
on investigative interviewing in which she focuses on rapport, legal assistance, and young suspects.
Recently, she was involved in a European study (JUST/2012/JPEN/AG/2909) on ‘Protecting young suspects in interrogation: legal
safeguards and best practices’. Miet Vanderhallen published various articles, chapters and books on these topics. Besides research she is
also involved in providing training to police (investigative interviewing) and lawyers (legal assistance).

Dr Vicky Kemp
Nottingham University

Vicky Kemp is a Principal Research Fellow at the School of Law. She was previously a Principal Researcher with the Legal Services Research
Centre, the independent research division of the former Legal Services Commission (from 2004 to 2013). In that role she conducted and
managed policy-driven research for the Ministry of Justice into criminal legal aid, access to justice and the wider criminal justice system.
As a visiting Fellow, she taught a module course on criminal justice issues at the University of Leicester. She was also a visiting Scholar at
the University of Cambridge. Prior to completing her doctorate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, in 2003, Vicky
gained experience of the criminal process both as a policy advisor and practitioner. In the Legal Aid Board (1995-1998), she was the policy
advisor responsible for reform of criminal legal aid. As a policy officer, she also has experience of working in multi-agency crime
prevention and community safety partnerships, both for the Home Office (1991-1992) and Northamptonshire County Council (1992-
1995). In the 1980s, she worked as a practitioner, providing legal advice to suspects detained in police custody and preparing Crown Court
cases for trial.

Lesley Laver
Bournemouth University

Lesley Laver is a Teacher of Psychology at Bournemouth University (UK) and a Forensic Psychologist in-training (MBPsS). Having initially
graduated in Law (LLB hons) in 2005, Lesley worked with vulnerable adults and children in a variety of contexts for seven years, before
embarking on qualification as a Forensic Psychologist in 2012. She obtained a Graduate Certificate (London), Graduate Diploma
(Winchester) and Master’s degree (Portsmouth) in Forensic Psychology between 2012 and 2015 and is now working towards registration
with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) through the British Psychological Society’s Stage 2 Qualification.
Alongside her studies and teaching, Lesley also volunteered as an Appropriate Adult for young suspects in police custody, where she
observed and contributed to countless juvenile suspect interviews. She now specialises in understanding the effects of impulsivity (inc.
ADHD) on crime, addiction, education and general wellbeing; with a particular focus on the assessment and communication needs of
young people. She has considerable experience working with (and advocating for) children and young adults with additional needs. It is
this experience that underpins her drive to improve safeguards for young suspects, whose difficulties across multiple domains are often
contributing to their criminal behaviour.

Martin Vaughan

Martin recently retired having completed 30 years policing with the vast majority being in various Criminal Investigation Departments. In
2001 he became the lead crime trainer for Gwent Police and was responsible for the development and implementation of all interview
programmes in line with the requirements of the NPIA. He was responsible for the implementation and training of the Interview Adviser
Development programme and the Advanced Suspect Investigative Interview programme at Gwent Police. He was a regular contributor to
the Crime Training School on a range of law based courses including the SIO Development Course and the IMSC Course. He was
responsible for reviewing the CPD of all specialist interviewers.
As a Detective Sergeant attached to the Major Incident Team he performed the role of Interview Adviser on numerous high profile
investigations including cases of child abuse, sexual abuse, and over 70 murder investigations. He received 16 Commendations for the
high quality of his work throughout his career including the delivery of training to multi agency audiences. In recent years he has been a
Force Interview Adviser and held the position of a National ACPO Accredited Interview Adviser covering the Welsh Region.
Martin sat on several strategic implementation Boards as an interview adviser including the Digital Interviewing Board and PIP
Implementation Team together with the Pan Gwent Multi-agency Training forum. Martin is a Practitioner member of the International
Investigative interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) and is currently an External Associate of the College of Policing.

Dr Aaron Pycroft
University of Portsmouth

Aaron is a Senior Lecturer in Addiction Studies (University of Portsmouth) and holds an Oxford University Special Diploma in Social
Administration (Plater College); MA “State, Policy and Social change” (Portsmouth); CCETSW Practice Teaching Award (Southampton);
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Portsmouth), FHEA, MA, Dip Soc Admin, PG (Cert) TLHE; and a
PhD by Publication (University of Portsmouth).
Aaron has had extensive practice and senior management experience in providing services for people who have drug and alcohol
problems and complex needs working in both statutory and non-statutory services. He has worked in ICJS since 2003 and researches,
writes and teaches on issues related to drug and alcohol use, theory and interventions.

Ioannis Papadopoulos
Attorney at Law (LL.B.); Forensics, Criminology and Law (LL.M.);
Ph.D. candidate University of Portsmouth

Ioannis Papadopoulos graduated from the School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2008. He successfully passed the
Bar exams in 2009, and since then practices Law, as a member of the Bar Association of Veria, Greece. He completed his postgraduate
studies (Forensics, Criminology and Law LL.M.) at the School of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, in 2013. Since October 2014
he runs his own law practice in Veria, Greece, specialising in criminal law, criminal procedure law and criminology.
In October 2016, Ioannis started his Ph.D. research at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK and his
project is a comparative study between the EU member states with particular emphasis added to the situation of England and Wales and
Greece, based on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child within domestic policy and its
implications regarding issues of detention and punishment and juvenile justice.

Professor Stephen Case
Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

Professor Stephen Case is a criminologist in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He specialises in youth justice
issues, particularly the implementation of ‘children first’, ‘positive’ practice models that challenge the negative, risk-based approaches of
post Crime and Disorder Act youth justice.
Stephen is the co-author (with Professor Kevin Haines) of ‘Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second’ (2015, Policy Press) and
‘Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice’ (2009, Willan). He has published numerous academic articles in
multi-disciplinary, international journals, including Youth Justice, Children and Society, the Howard Journal and the Journal of Substance
Use.
Professor Case has conducted research for the Youth Justice Board, the Home Office, the Welsh Government, the National Institute for
Health and Social Care Research and the Wales Office for Research and Development, including leading the national evaluation of the
Welsh Government’s youth inclusion strategy ‘Extending Entitlement’.

Ben Byrne
Head of Early Help, Surrey County Council

Ben brings over 20 years’ experience to his role as Head of Early Help. Since qualifying with a Masters Degree and professional diploma in
social work, he has worked as a practitioner and manager in criminal justice and children’s services. He became Head of Youth Justice in
Surrey in 2009 and led the integrated Youth Support Service for the past four years.
Prominent in Ben's work has been a long-standing commitment to preventative and restorative approaches, which have contributed to
multiple national awards for the Youth Support Service and the lowest rate of entrants to the youth justice system of any local authority in
England and Wales. He has led on the South East protocol to reduce criminalisation of children in care and has recently been a member of
the Prison Reform Trust’s Care Review chaired by Lord Laming.

Dr Jonathan Bigg
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Forensic
CAMHS

Dr Jonathan Bigg finished training to be a Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in 1999 and has worked in forensic roles since then.
He has been the lead psychiatrist for the community-based Hampshire & Isle of Wight Regional Forensic CAMH Service since it began in
2010. He has therefore worked with risk assessment and management of some very concerning situations over the years.
Dr Bigg advocates strongly for sensible consideration of the intricate specific circumstances any particular young person faces. This is as a
cautionary approach against leaning too heavily on processes and forms, which also clearly have a supportive role to play. As such he has
long been interested in direct and indirect therapeutic interventions for young people. Currently he uses knowledge and skills developed
around the emerging, but still controversial diagnostic ideas of Complex and Developmental Trauma to try to help individuals with more
“risky” profiles. His approach to transitions reflects this perspective.