Associate ProfessorStef Sharman

Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning)

Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute

  • Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning)
    Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute
  • +61 3 924 46485 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr Sharman has three main research interests in the area of memory:
1. How people can come to remember experiences differently from how they actually occurred.
2. The impact of interviewing (e.g., by police) on eliciting accurate and detailed reports of experienced events.
3. How to best train investigative interviewers

Knowledge Areas
Autobiographical memory
False memory
Source monitoring
Cognition
Investigative interviewing

Projects
* Interviewing children and adults about repeated events
* The impact of different types of misleading questions on eyewitness recall
*Training investigative interviewers in best-practice techniques

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Co-design, development and evaluation of state-wide model for victim advocacy service and model of an integrated response to sexual assault
    20 Mar 2024 - 31 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Justice and Attorney-General - Queensland - DJAG 815.2324 - $1,092,188.53
  • GRANT
    A whole system approach to improving child witnesses' particularisation of sexual abuse offences
    30 Jun 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Powell M,
    • Sharman S,
    • Roberts K
    WA Dept for Child Protection - Western Australia - $150,000.00
  • GRANT
    A whole system approach to improving child witnesses' particularisation of sexual abuse offences
    30 Jun 2012 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Powell M,
    • Sharman S,
    • Roberts K
    ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 - LP120200095 - $229,611.00