Catriona Havard

Catriona Havard has a lecturer at the Open University since 2011 and a member of the Forensic Cognition Research Group. Her main area of research is face recognition, in the forensic context of eyewitness identification from line-ups. The primary aim of her research is to make eyewitness evidence more reliable, especially for children and older adult (over 60 yrs) witnesses, and to reduce misidentifications that could lead to wrongful convictions.

To see a short film about her research visit https://www.open.ac.uk/research/main/news/new-technique-improve-child-witness-evidence

During her time at the Open University, Catriona has chaired the Postgraduate Module D873 Forensic psychology: witnesses, experts and evidence on trial and helped to create DD102 Introduction to Social Sciences module. She is currently the Qualification Director for the Q07 BSc in Psychology (Honours).

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