Role
Harriet is an Associate Professor in Psychology.
Career overview
Harriet studied for her undergraduate degree in History at the University of Cambridge (2004-2008). At NTU she completed the MSc Psychology conversion course (2011-2012), and her PhD on ‘Matching novel face and voice identity using static and dynamic facial images’ (2013-2016).
Harriet was an ECR fellow at NTU from 2017 to 2023.
Research areas
Harriet is an applied cognitive psychologist specialising in facial and vocal identity discrimination in forensic and security contexts. Her research focuses on 1) improving perpetrator identification from face and voice lineups by eye- and earwitnesses, and 2) optimising identity verification (e.g., from ID photos or covert voice recordings). Harriet’s work aims to reduce the risk of miscarriages of justice, increase police efficiency, and support national security.
For recent pre-prints, please see PsyArXiv
External activity
Member of the British Psychological Society
Member of the BPS Cognitive Psychology Section and elected member of the BPS Cognitive Section Committee
Associate Editor of the Cognitive Psychology Bulletin
Member of the Experimental Psychology Society
Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Forensic and Legal Psychology Section)
Awards
2016 PsyPAG Rising Researcher
Sponsors and collaborators
External collaborators include:
- Dr Heather Flowe and Dr Melissa Colloff (University of Birmingham)
- Dr Kirsty McDougall and Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
- Dr Katrin Mueller-Johnson (University of Oxford)
- Professor Josh Davis (University of Greenwich)
- Dr Nadine Lavan (QMUL)
Harriet was a co-investigator on 'Improving voice identification procedures', a project funded by the ESRC (£700,000, PI: Dr Kirsty Mcdougall). In 2017 Harriet was awarded a £9,722 research grant from the British Academy ('Developing a procedure for eliciting accurate, detailed, and consistent forensic voice descriptions from lay witnesses').