Teaching
Prof Alison's key teaching commitment is on the MSc Forensic and Investigative Masters course. He teaches on The Critical Incident Module and Research Methods. Using a blend of front facing teaching and scenario based learning he regularly receives positive feedback for engaging, applicable and stimulating learning.
He also teaches on the 3rd Year Forensic Module as well as guest spot on first year psychology social modules as well as a seminar series on friendship.
He enjoys the teaching experience - especially where that helps guide students from year one through to further learning at MSc level.
Topics include
High stakes decision making
The history of psychological abuse and the use of torture
The development of tools to assist in risk management
Critical Incident Decision Making and Inertia
The Acceleration of Expertise in High Stakes Decisions
Scenario Based Learning
Investigative Interviewing and Interrogation
Preparing Court Reports
Friendship Studies
Decision Making 'In Extremis'
Critical incident decision making; decision inertia; simulation based learning.
Suspect Interviewing
Field Based studies of interviewing suspects, detainees and captured persons
Risk Managmentt of Sex Offenders
Developing tools to assist Law Enforcement in Prioritising Sex Offenders
Modules for 2024-25
ASSESSMENT AND LEGAL PROCESSES
Module code: PSYC706
Role: Teaching
CLINICAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
Module code: PSYC232
Role: Teaching
Crowds in critical incidents: Understanding the spectrum across facilitation, compliance & control
Module code: PSYC830
Role: Teaching
DISSERTATION
Module code: PSYC705
Role: Teaching
Effective interrogative communication
Module code: PSYC816
Role: Module Co-ordinator
FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Module code: PSYC311
Role: Teaching
Policing and Emergency Response
Module code: PSYC703
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS
Module code: PSYC640
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS 2
Module code: PSYC135
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS 3
Module code: PSYC234
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS 4
Module code: PSYC235
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH PROJECT
Module code: PSYC340
Role: Teaching
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Module code: PSYC132
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- A geo-behavioural model of stranger rape: implications for offender profiling and linking
- An Evidence-based Approach to Prioritising Indecent Images of Children Offenders: Implications for Deployment and End User Operationalisation
- An examination of the impact of accountability and blame culture on police judgments and decisions in critical incident contexts
- Behavioural Investigative Advice for Police Investigations
- Conflict: Sacred Values, Decision Inertia and the Psychology of Choice in Military Decision-Making.
- Deliberation and implementation activity in forced-choice decision making environments: variations in information processing within a neurocognitive framework
- Developing the Intervention Evidence Base for Children and Young People who have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse
- Examining Rapport Based Approaches with High Value Suspects
- FROM RESISTANCE TO ENGAGEMENT: OBSERVING OUTSIDE THE ROOM FACTORS, RAPPORT-BASED SKILLS AND INTERPERSONAL RELATING IN POLICE INTERVIEWS WITH TERRORIST AND ORGANISED CRIME GANG SUSPECTS.
- Inaction in action: how task and team uncertainty "derail" strategic decision making and produce implementation failures in critical and major incident management
- The Air Defence Task: Understanding what motivates automation usage to support classification decisions in practice
- The Mechanical Psychologist: How Computational Techniques Can Aid Social Researchers in the Analysis of High-Stakes Conversation
- The impact of individual differences and interpersonal behaviour on decision-making and interviewing in police investigations
- ‘We’re in this together’: An exploratory study of the behaviour, preferences and perceptions of casualties during simulated major incident exercises