Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
Research activity per year
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Dr Maria Ioannou, is a Reader in Investigative and Forensic Psychology and Course Director for the MSc Investigative Psychology. She is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist (British Psychological Society) and a HCPC Registered Psychologist (Forensic). She joined Huddersfield University in 2009 as a Senior Lecturer. Dr Ioannou obtained a first class undergraduate degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Pedagogics from the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2000. In 2001 she completed her MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Her dissertation was on the Criminal Narrative Experience focusing on the roles that offenders act out and the emotions they experience while they are committing their crimes. She developed this research for her PhD, which she completed in 2006.
Dr Ioannou has been involved in the assessment of intervention programmes for reducing/preventing crime for a range of different forms of criminality and groups of offenders. Typically these evaluations have required assessments of change/impact/influence of the interventions on individuals and their criminal behaviour as well as assessments of the overall programme itself. She has also contributed to consultancy reports and been involved in consultancy work with a range of police forces and other agencies such as the Safer Merseyside Partnership, Merseyside Police, Liverpool City Council, Lancashire Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence, the Irish Prison Service as well as in a number of legal cases that involved among others preparation of background material and investigative advice on Forensic Psycholinguistics/ Questioned Authorship Attribution, interpretation of psychological measures on a case of offender profiling with personality and other psychometric assessment and analysis of the psychological features indicated within personal documents.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mara Morelli (Speaker), Dora Bianchi (Speaker), Fiorenzo Laghi (Speaker), Elena Cattelino (Speaker), Antonio Chirumbolo (Speaker), Piotr Sorokowski (Speaker), Michal Misiak (Speaker), Martyna Dziekan (Speaker), Heather Hudson (Speaker), Alexandra Marshall (Speaker), Michelle Drouin (Speaker), Thanh Truc Nguyen (Speaker), Lauren Mark (Speaker), Kamil Kopecky (Speaker), René Szotkowski (Speaker), Ezgi Toplu Demirtaş (Speaker), Joris Van Ouytsel (Speaker), Koen Ponnet (Speaker), Michel Walrave (Speaker), Tingshao Zhu (Speaker), Ya Chen (Speaker), Nan Zhao (Speaker), Xiaoqian Liu (Speaker), Alexander Voiskounsky (Speaker), Nataliya Bogacheva (Speaker), Maria Ioannou (Speaker), John Synnott (Speaker), Kalliopi Tzani Pepelasi (Speaker), Moses Okumu (Speaker), Eusebius Small (Speaker), Silviya Pavlova Nikolova (Speaker) & Vimala Balakrishnan (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Dara Mojtahedi (Speaker), Maria Ioannou (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Laura Hammond (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Daniel Hunt (Speaker), Maria Ioannou (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & John Synnott (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Sally-Ann Ashton (Speaker), Maria Ioannou (Speaker) & Laura Hammond (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Maria Ioannou (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work
19/03/19 → 22/03/19
4 items of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Expert Comment
John Synnott, Kalliopi Tzani Pepelasi & Maria Ioannou
21/08/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
7/05/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research