MSc Dissertations

Over the years  there have been MSc students who have worked with the group and submitted MSc dissertations for their degrees. The titles are below, as with our PhD theses we are prevented from sharing details of these by confidentiality agreements with our collaborators.

Wyatt N (2014) Threat-related attentional bias in Authorised Firearms Officers. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Sheppard R (2014) An investigation into personality characteristics and risk taking in police officers. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Mangion G (2014) Testing the effectiveness of the Identifying Vulnerable People (IVP) guidance document using open source data from Guantanamo Bay. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

O’Brien G (2013) A psychometric evaluation of the IVP: A study of leaderless resistance and the implications for prevention. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Gordts S (2013) Evaluating the psychometric properties of the identifying people vulnerable to recruitment into violent extremism checklist in a European sample. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Cooper F (2013) Testing the utility and reliability of the Identifying Vulnerable People (IVP) guidance criteria in detecting individuals who may be recruited into violent extremism. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Jackson A (2013) A comparison between the memory recall of eye witnesses and Authorised Firearms Officers using the Liverpool Interview Protocol as a means of memory enhancement. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Hunt A (2012) An investigation of Authorised Firearms Officers’ verbal ability during firearms training scenarios. Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Blake M (2012) Cognitive task analysis of decision making processes of Emergency Planning Officers involved in emergency incidents. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Staller M (2012) Effects of a reality-based training scenario on phonemic fluency in German police officers. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

McCaughrean D (2011) A comparison of adaptive and mal-adaptive risk taking by hostage negotiators, firearms officers, and incident (silver) commanders. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

McNab D (2011) An investigation of the effects of a firearms scenario on memory recall in firearms officers. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Hayward Kourabas A (2011) An investigation into firearms officers’ memory recall. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Levick P (2010) An examination of the physiological arousal of police officers during firearms training scenarios. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Jarman M (2010) The Impact of firearms training on the cognitive function of police firearms officers. Submitted for the MSc in Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Craven J (2009) Does the provenance of information used in lethal force decisions and the perceived reliability of that information affect the decision to shoot to kill ? Submitted for the MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology, University of Liverpool.