Jim Turner

Jim is a senior lecturer in forensic psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling. He has worked on many OU psychology modules, both undergraduate and postgraduate, including in recent years co-producing the level 2 undergraduate module DD210 ‘Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary’ and the postgraduate module DD802 ‘Investigating forensic psychology’. Jim is also currently the Deputy Director of Teaching for Psychology and Counselling and Qualification Lead for the BSc (Hons) Psychology degree (Q07).

Jim’s research is in applied psychology, particularly as it relates to forensic issues, and he is an active member of the Forensic Cognition Research Group (website: https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/groups/fcrg , Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ForensicCognition/). His main areas of interest are eyewitness identification evidence, facial compositing, the ‘CSI Effect’, and the effect of cognitive load on driving safety. He has also conducted research and scholarship into effective teaching, learning and assessment.

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