Dr Melissa Colloff BSc, MSc, PhD

• PhD Psychology, University of Warwick
• MSc Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester
• BSc Psychology, University of Bath

Dr Melissa Colloff conducted postgraduate research on the influence of alcohol intoxication on face recognition and completed a PhD examining how police lineup techniques for distinctive suspects influence eyewitness identification accuracy. During her education, Melissa worked on applied and theoretical research projects at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, The University of Leicester, UK and University of California, San Diego. Following her PhD, Melissa worked with Dr Heather on a funded project which examined whether a novel identification procedure can improve face recognition accuracy. Melissa has been a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Birmingham since 2018.

Melissa teaches on the Forensic Psychology Practice Doctorate (ForenPsyD)

Melissa welcomes applications from first-rate graduate students wishing to pursue postgraduate research degrees on applied memory and cognition topics. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to contact Melissa directly if they are interested in contributing to research in the Applied Memory and Cognition Lab.

Melissa’s research interests include:

• Face recognition and police lineup procedures
• Signal detection theory and recognition memory
• Eyewitness memory and memory distortions
• The effects of alcohol intoxication on memory

Research identifiers

ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6401-4872