Research Interests

 

Thesis Title

Fear of crime, gender and social control: Experimental tests of radical feminist notions

Supervisor

Dr Robbie Sutton

Funding

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 + 3 studentship

Conference Presentations

Hughes, S., Dukes, K, Gabriel, C., Gomez, H., Kaplan, R., Lynch, A., Lee Nichols, A., & Lyddy, F. (2011, January). Do graduate students really think straight about weird things? Poster presented at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2011, San Antonio, Texas.

Lynch, A. L., & Sutton, R.M.(2010, November). Fear of Crime as a Yardstick of Social Control: Fearful Women are Evaluated more Favorably. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2010, San Francisco, California.

Lynch, A. L., & Sutton, R.M. (2010, June). Be afraid: The norm that women should fear crime and its consequences for social judgement. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Division of Forensic Psychology Conference 2010, Kent, England.

Sutton, R.M., Douglas, K.M., Lynch, A.L. (2010, January). Gender differences in the disclosure of fear: When self-presentation = stereotype communication. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lynch, A. L., & Sutton, R.M. (2009, September). Instrument of control? The consequences of expressing and denying fear of crime for men and women. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Social Psychology Section Conference 2009, Sheffield, England.

Lynch, A. L., & Sutton, R.M. (2009, April). Instrument of control? The consequences of expressing and denying fear of crime for men and women. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Psychology of Women Section Conference 2009, Windsor, England.

Teaching and Other Academic Activities

• Member-at-Large for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Graduate Student Committee
• Graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Member of the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology
• Member of the American Society of Criminology
• Experienced Assistant Clinical Psychologist, working with mentally disordered offenders in prison and secure unit settings
  

School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NP
United Kingdom

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