Dr Matthew Gerrie

Matthew is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Victoria and the IPNZ Manager. Matthew’s main area of research is the study of human memory errors and their impact on the psychology of law. More specifically, he is interested in how eyewitnesses remember (and sometimes misremember) details from a crime scene and factors that lead to eyewitness misidentification.

Prof Maryanne Garry

Prof. Garry, in the the School of Psychology at Victoria University, is a Director of IPNZ. She is interested in how we can come to believe we saw or did something that we never did, and how we decide whether our memories are true or false. Prof. Garry has testified in court and consulted with defence attorneys on the legal implications for these issues (for instance, the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and "recovered" memories of childhood sexual abuse).

Prof Harlene Hayne

Prof. Hayne is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at University of Otago, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Director of IPNZ. Prof. Hayne is an expert in the development of learning and memory in children and in the retention of childhood memories in adulthood. In particular, Prof. Hayne's research examines how encoding, storage, and retrieval processes change as a function of age and experience, how the acquisition of language influences memory ability, and how changes in interview procedures alter our estimates of what children and adults remember. Prof. Hayne�s research has implications for a range of forensic issues including children's testimony, suggestibility, and historical claims of abuse.

Dr Rachel Zajac

Dr. Zajac is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at University of Otago and she is an Associate Director of IPNZ. Dr. Zajac's research is concerned with children's eyewitness testimony, and the suitability of traditional legal procedures for child witnesses. Much of her work looks at cross-examination, a process whereby the lawyer acting for the accused attempts to bring the witness's testimony into question.

Neil Brewer

Professor, School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia

Justin Brooks

Executive Director, Institute for Criminal Advocacy, California Western School of Law

Stephen J. Ceci

Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Human Development, Cornell University

Simon A. Cole

Associate Professor, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Professor, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland

Gary Gotlieb

Barrister, New Zealand

Virginia Grainer

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington

Mark Henaghan

Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago

Lynley Hood

Award-winning writer, New Zealand

Greg King

Barrister, New Zealand

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

Jacqueline McMurtrie

Assistant Professor; Director, Innocence Project Northwest, School of Law, University of Washington

Devon Polaschek

Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington

John Rowan, QC

Barrister, New Zealand

Christopher Stevenson

Barrister, New Zealand

Deryn Strange

Assistant Professor, John Jay College, City University New York

William C. Thompson

Professor, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine

Yvette Tinsley

Reader, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington