We are proud to announce that one of the teams from our 2018-19 cohort has received the APS Student Award!

The 500$ APS Award aims to support early career researchers by funding research projects in their early development stages. The team, led by Renan Saraiva from the University of Portsmouth, received the award for their research project on “Improving decision-making in the criminal justice system” earlier this year.

The project’s aim is to test the effectiveness of the “Interview-Identification-Eyewitness teaching aid (I-I-Eye)” in order to help evaluation of eyewitness evidence in criminal cases. In addition, the project aims to extend the current measure by adding an active component to it, and to investigate whether this addition can improve legal professionals’ assessments of eyewitness accuracy. The initial results of the project were presented at the JRP conference at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge in August this year.

Congratulations to the team and we are looking forward to the future development of the project!