Research interests

My main areas of research interest are: eyewitness testimonies, methods of interrogation, police psychology, jury psychology, stereotypes in court room and modus operandi of offenders. My current research focuses on creation of offenders’ facial composites under different experimental conditions.

Thesis Title

Forensic evaluation of witnesses’ performance in creation, identification and recognition of offenders’ facial composites; the question of their confidence and accuracy

Supervisor

Professor Robert Johnston

Funding

Private Funding

Conference Presentations

Lech, A., Solomon, C., Holliday R. (2007) Creating facial portraits of offenders using EigenFit. Presented at the Psychology Post-graduate Affairs Group, London

Lech, A., Solomon, C., Holliday R. (2007) Creating facial portraits using EigenFit. Presented at the Postgraduate Conference University of Kent, Canterbury

Lech, A. (2008) The influence of exposure time on facial composite construction for own-race and cross-race conditions. Presented at the BPS Annual Conference, Dublin

Lech, A. (2008) Forensic evaluation of witnesses’ performance in creation, identification and recognition of offenders’ facial composites; the question of their confidence and accuracy. Presented at the Forensic PhD Conference, Birmingham

Lech, A. (2008) The influence of exposure time on facial composite construction for own-race and cross-race conditions. Presented at the DFP Annual Conference, Edinburgh

Lech, A. (2008) Identifying facial features – what we really remember about the face? Presented at the Psychology Post-graduate Affairs Group, Manchester

Lech, A. (2009) Identifying facial features – what we really remember about the face? Presented at the Experimental Psychology Society, London

Lech, A. (2009) A picture says a 1000 words. Presented at the BPS Annual Conference, Brighton

Lech, A. (2009) A picture says a 1000 words - Descriptions versus Composites. Presented at the DFP Annual Conference, Preston

Lech, A. (2007) A picture says a 1000 words - Descriptions versus Composites. Presented at the Postgraduate Conference University of Kent, Canterbury

Lech, A. (2009) The influence of exposure time on facial composite construction for own-race and cross-race conditions based on two different ways of evaluating the effectiveness of facial composite software. Presented at the 11th Congress of Psychology, Oslo

Lech, A. (2009) Different conditions of working with facial composite systems – what works better? Presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Sorrento, Italy

Publications

Lech A. (in press) Tasks and role of the court expert in civil legislation in UK, University of Silesia, Katowice

Smith G., Lech A., DeCock P., Pennington G. (2008) The hitchhiker’s guide to the thesis – Life, PhDs and everything. The Psychologist, Vol. 21, No. 12