Associate ProfessorStef Sharman
Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning)
Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute
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- 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
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 RESEARCHCo-design, development and evaluation of state-wide model for victim advocacy service and model of an integrated response to sexual assault20 Mar 2024 - 31 Jan 2027People funded by this grant:
- Iliadis M,
- Satyen L,
- Toumbourou J,
- Farmer C,
- Sharman S
- GRANTA whole system approach to improving child witnesses' particularisation of sexual abuse offences30 Jun 2013 - 31 Dec 2016People funded by this grant:
- Powell M,
- Sharman S,
- Roberts K
- GRANTA whole system approach to improving child witnesses' particularisation of sexual abuse offences30 Jun 2012 - 31 Dec 2015People funded by this grant:
- Powell M,
- Sharman S,
- Roberts K