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Karim, one of our postgraduate students, interviewed Jackie Hodgson last May about the Criminal Justice Centre. Many thanks to Sara Prestleton for organising this! Watch the video here:

Congratulations to Natalie Kyneswood who won the Middle Temple Lechmere Essay Prize for an essay she wrote on the Human Rights Act and the proposed British Bill of Rights. It was judged by Master of the Bench, Professor Dawn Oliver QC, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at University College London.

The judge described the essay as presenting a 'clear explanation of the unpopularity of the HRA and considers that an alternative 'British Bill of Rights' would be no more popular, and that arguments for such a change are misconceived...'. She found the essay to have 'a neat turn of phrase...well backed up by parliamentary, political and academic references' and a 'mature and intelligent' argument.

You can read Natalie's essay at: http://www.middletemple.org.uk/education-and-training/scholarships-and-prizes/essay-prizes/lechmere

CJC members Jackie Hodgson and Kevin Hearty have secured funding for the Centre for Operational Police Research with colleagues from other departments.

Professors Jackie Hodgson, Neil Stewart (Psychology) and Carsten Maple (WMG) have secured £40,000 from Warwick Strategic Impact Fund for collaborative work with the Metropolitan Police Service. The funding is set to help develop a network of academics and active police staff and officers around three central research projects.

Professor Jackie Hodgson and Dr Kevin Hearty, along with Associate Professor Kim Wade and Professor Neil Stewart (Psychology), have also secured £20,000 from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account to collaborate with West Mercia and Warwickshire Police. The funded project: “We don’t buy crime” will develop and evaluate the impact of Smartwater technology and other preventive interventions on public confidence in and satisfaction with the policing of burglary.

Kim Wade, Melissa Colloff and Sophie Nightingale - CJC members from the Psychology department - attended the 11th biennial meeting of the Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), an organisation which aims to enhance collaboration between basic and applied researchers in the areas of memory and cognition and explore the intersections of the psychological science of memory and 'real-world' domains such as law. The meeting took place 25-27 June 2015 in Victoria, Canada.

Sophie Nightingale, Kim Wade and Derrick Watson, presented a paper on 'Identifying manipulated images'; Melissa Colloff and Kim Wade presented a paper on 'A large-scale experiment on presenting suspects with distinctive facial features in lineups'; Kim Wade and Robert Nash, presented a paper on 'Cost is more important than reliability when deciding how to verify autobiographical memories'.

Prior to the meeting, Sophie and Melissa both won awards for their posters at the Warwick Postgraduate Research Showcase which took place on 10 June 2015. Congratulations to them!

Victor Tadros will be a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School for the Fall Semester 2015-16. Whilst there, he will teach Criminal Law and a reading group on Just War Theory.