The Forensic Psychology Research Centre (FPRC) at Carleton University will be holding a series of lunch-hour presentations on the exciting and diverse research being conducted by FPRC faculty, students, and associates. Research conducted in the FPRC covers topics in correctional, legal, and police psychology.
All faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students are welcome to attend these talks.
Next Brown Bag Lunch Talks:
Winter 2017
Nicholas Carleton, Ph.D., R.D. Psych
Title: Mental Health and Public Safety Personnel: Supporting all who Serve (view event poster)
Date: Monday, February 13, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Location: Dunton 2017
Previous Brown Bag Lunch Talks:
Winter 2015
Liam Ennis, Ph.D, R. Psych
Title: The Alberta Integrated Threat and Risk Assessment Centre: Preventing targeted violence through police-authored threat assessment
Date: Thursday, March 12, 12:00 – 1:15pm
Location: Dunton 2017
Fall 2014
Matt Logan, Ph.D., S/Sgt (ret), an FBI trained hostage negotiator and Operational Psychologist with the RCMP
Title: Psychopathic and predatory minds
Date: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, 11:45 – 1:00pm
Location: Dunton 2017
Rod Lindsay, Professor of psychology, Queen’s University
Title: Showups: Why we are still convicting the innocent
Date: Wednesday, Nov 12, Noon – 1:15 pm
Location: Dunton 2017
Dr. Joseph Eastwood, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT): You Have the Right to Remain Confused: Comprehension of Legal Rights in Police Interrogations (view event poster)
Date: Monday, February 24th, 2014
Winter 2014
Dr. Jim Bonta, Public Safety Canada: Understanding What Works and Making it Work (view event poster)
Fall 2013
Dr. James Cantor: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: Understanding Pedophilia and the Brain: The Basics, the Current Status, and their Implications (view event poster)
Winter 2013
Dr. Martin Lalumière: Sexual Arousal Mysteries for Forensic Psychologists (3rd Annual Don Andrews Lecture Series) (view announcement)
Dr. Jenelle Power: Finding a Non-Academic Job: Tips from Someone on the Inside (view announcement)
Fall 2012
Dr. Stephen Maguire: Supporting Integrity in Policing (view announcement)
Janelle Beaudette: Backstabbing Bosses and Callous Co-Workers: A Mixed Methods Examination of the Experience of Working with a Psychopath (view announcement)
Winter 2012
Dr. Evelyn Maeder: Juror Decision-Making: Examining Legal and Extralegal Influences (presentation available here)
Dr. Adelle Forth: Researching the Psychopath: Legal, Clinical, and Victim Implications (presentation available here)
Fall 2011
Dr. Shelley Brown: Welcome and orientation for forensic psychology graduate students (presentation available here)
Dr. Kevin Nunes: Examining Cognitions Related to Sexual and Non-Sexual Aggression (presentation available here)
Dr. Ralph Serin: Criminal Justice Decision Making Research: More than Risk Assessment!!
An overview of Ralph Serin’s lab, theoretical models and current research; the purpose of which is to improve case-based decisions throughout an offender’s involvement with the criminal justice system. (presentation available here)
Dr. Shelley Brown: Going Bad…Going Straight—Exploring Gendered Pathways In and Out of the Youth Criminal Justice System (presentation available here)