Facial image comparison training
This evidence-based 1-day course is designed to improve practitioners’ facial image comparison accuracy. The course draws on cognitive science and neuroscience to deliver specially designed practical exercises that have been empirically shown to boost accuracy. This training is most suitable for practitioners at the reviewer level looking to improve their skills matching relatively high-quality imagery, e.g. from social media, custody photos, passports, driver’s licenses, and FR database searches.
Duration: 1-day
Trainers: Alice Towler, David White & Richard Kemp
Cost: Price on request
Contact: a.towler@uq.edu.au
Cognitive science for forensic scientists
This hands-on 1-day workshop covers essential cognitive science for forensic scientists. Topics include confirmation bias & contextual information, the blind-spots of human perception & memory, communication & interpretation of forensic science evidence, and the importance of feedback. Carefully designed activities allow trainees to discover and experience the quirks of human decision-making for themselves. Practitioners leave with practical tips and personalised strategies for avoiding and managing these quirks in their daily work.
Duration: 1-day
Convenors: Kristy Martire, Richard Kemp & Alice Towler
Cost: Price on request
Contact: a.towler@uq.edu.au
Behavioural data analysis for forensic scientists
This 1-day workshop covers the basics of analysing human performance data in forensic tasks. The workshop covers data organisation, quality assurance, descriptive statistics, correlations, signal detection theory and basic inferential statistics (e.g. t-tests) - everything forensic scientists need to analyse data from validation studies.
Duration: 1-day
Convenors: Alice Towler, Richard Kemp, Kristy Martire
Cost: Price on request
Contact: a.towler@uq.edu.au