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Summer School The House of Legal Psychology

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This Summer School is for all PhD candidates and their supervisors from The House of legal Psychology and will focus on psychology of evidence: A European perspective and vulnerable suspects and reduced responsibility issues across Europe.

 

More information on this programme can be found on legalpsychology and linked-in.

 

Programme

 

Location: Law Faculty, Bouillonstraat 1-3, Maastricht

Room D2.215

Monday 27/8 

  • Welcome by prof. dr. Peter van Koppen
  • Presentations with progress update (10 min. ) and discussions (5 min.) from the PhD students cohort 2017 
  • Coffee break
  • Flash lights (max 5 + 2 min) by cohort 2016 with an update since Winter School
  • Lunch
  • Lecture 1: Vulnerable suspects and reduced responsibility issues across Europe by dr. Melanie Sauerland
  • Coffee break
  • A lack of transparency in legal psychology research? Reflections and debate on the open science movement in our field by dr. Henry Otgaar
  • Social event   

Tuesday 28/8 

  • Lecture 1:  Psychology of evidence: a European perspective by prof. dr. Peter van Koppen and dr. Robert Horselenberg
  • Lunch 
  • Workshop crime scene investigation by TMFI
  • Social event 

Wednesday 29/8 

  • Lecture Legal English by prof. dr. Peter van Koppen
  • Coffee break
  • Assessment of sex offenders by prof. Corine de Ruiter
  • Lunch 
  • Interview a Police officer by an assistent DA at Sexual Crime Unit Police
  • Drinks with Police 
  • Student meeting and dinner 

Thursday 30/8 

  • Lecture by prof. Jan de Keyser: The value of the evidence
  • Coffee break
  • Lecture 2:  Psychology of evidence: a European perspective by prof. dr. Peter van Koppen and dr. Robert Horselenberg
  • Lunch 
  • Consortium Board meeting
  • Workshop malingering and all that by prof. Harald Merckelbach
  • Meet your supervisors
  • Dinner 

Friday 31/8 

  • Meet your supervisors
  • Workshop Part I  Interviewing training by prof. Fiona Gabbert and prof. Lorraine Hope
  • Coffee break
  • WORKSHOP Part II  Interviewing training 
  • Lunch 
  • WORKSHOP Part III  Interviewing training 
  

 

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