Incredible Memon Women.....Professor Amina Memon

Professor Amina Memon PhD, C.Psychol, FBPsS  is a name pretty much known in the field of Cognitive psychology.Prof Memon’s main expertise is in Applied Social and Cognitive psychology.  She has been conducting research in the Psychology and Law area for 25 years with collaborations in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, North America, Germany and Sweden. She has received numerous awards to support her research and has over 80 publications. Her research has received media coverage and her expert opinion has been sought in civil and criminal cases in Scotland and England.  She has been contributing to professional development and training since 1995.

Research interests: Current projects including work on eyewitness memory, detection of deception and credibility assessment, vulnerable witnesses and video parades, and the Cognitive Interview.

Dr Memon has published widely on topics such as investigative interviewing of child witnesses, police interviews, face recognition, eyewitness identification, the performance of child and older adult witnesses, false memories and jury decision-making. Dr Memon works closely with professionals involved in the interviewing of witnesses and has contributed to training programmes all over the world. She also provides expert assessments of the quality of witness evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.