Publications and Presentations
‘Show me what happened’: Low technology communication aids used in intermediary mediated police investigative interviews with vulnerable witnesses with an intellectual disability. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. 27(1) https://doi.org/10.1177/13657127221140469
Using communication aids with witnesses with a learning disability to facilitate equal access to the criminal justice system; in Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and beyond, Sun Press. Stellenbosch, South Africa; 2022
Working effectively with spoken language interpreters. England and Wales Ministry of Justice conference for criminal justice practitioners. February 2022; online
Investigative interviewing witnesses with an Intellectual Disability: Low technology communication aids as devices to maintain functionality of open questions; International Investigative Interviewing Research Group online conference September 2021
Using communication aids to improve quality of evidence: Eliciting investigation relevant complex concepts; conference paper, England and Wales Ministry of Justice conference 2021; online
Using objects in forensic interviews with witnesses with a learning disability; conference paper, International Association of Forensic Linguistics, 2019; Melbourne, Australia
Poster: Communication aids as an alternative to spoken communication in forensic interviews: Improving quality of evidence by an alleged victim with a Learning Disability; International Conference for Conversation Analysis. Loughborough UK 2018
Preparing witnesses with a Learning Disability for answering questions in an investigative interview; conference paper, Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; 2018, Cardiff, Wales UK.
The impact of Alternative and Augmentative communication in a police investigative interview, paper, Applying Theory to Practice symposium, Centre for Forensic Linguistics; 2017, Aston UK
Change in quality of evidence elicited with witnesses with a learning disability; conference paper International Association of Forensic Linguistics; Porto, Portugal; 2017
Interviewing children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, conference paper, International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG), Dundee, Scotland 2011