Professor Rachel Wilcock
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
School Head of Department
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Professor Rachel Wilcock conducts research in the area of Investigative Psychology and, in particular, eyewitness memory in vulnerable witnesses, publishing extensively in the area and offering training to the police and other practitioners working within the Criminal Justice System.
Her first lecturing post was at Kingston University in 2002, before she moved to London South Bank University in 2005 to develop and lead an MSc in Investigative Forensic Psychology. She was promoted to Reader in 2011.
In 2015, she moved to the University of Winchester and was the Faculty lead for PhD students before becoming Head of the Department of Psychology between 2016 and 2022.
In 2024, she returned to Kingston University as a Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology.
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology 2002 University of Portsmouth
- BSc (Hons) Psychology 1998 University of Wales, Swansea
- PGCE in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2003, Kingston University
- PGCE in Psychological Research Methods 2000 University of Portsmouth