Rebecca L Wheeler-Mundy- PhD
- Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University
Rebecca L Wheeler-Mundy
- PhD
- Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University
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Introduction
My PhD project (ESRC CASE studentship) examines ways of supporting eyewitness recall and increasing witness cooperation with investigations. I have investigated the effectiveness of self-generated cue mnemonics, and social influence techniques in an investigative interview setting. This work has been supervised by Prof. Fiona Gabbert, and conducted in collaboration with two large UK police forces.
I joined Birmingham City University as a lecturer in Psychology in October 2017.
Please note that all publications prior to October 2018 will appear as R.L. Wheeler, and all subsequent publications will appear as R.L. Wheeler-Mundy.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2013 - present
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Duties: Leading groups of undergraduates and Masters level students through pre-prepared materials. Contributing to workshop materials where appropriate. Writing and delivering large lectures. Marking, moderation and exam invigilation as required.
January 2013 - April 2013
Position
- Research Officer
Description
- Research Officer to Dr. Rob Nash on a Deception Detection Project (BA funded). Duties: Literature reviews, preparation of materials and interview-based data collection. Also coding of data from a previous cognitive interview project.
October 2012 - January 2013
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- RA to Dr Charlotte Coleman. Duties: Data entry and coding of a large scale questionnaire. Carried out in conjunction with South Yorkshire Police examining parent and staff perceptions of road safety around schools in South Yorkshire.
Education
September 2014 - January 2018
September 2010 - August 2012
September 2005 - July 2010
Publications
Publications (7)
Purpose
Witness-led techniques, informed by theory, have been recognized as best practice for eliciting information from cooperative eyewitnesses. This study aims to test a self-generated cue (SGC) mnemonic grounded in memory theory and explore the impact of three SGC mnemonics on subsequent recall performance.
Design/methodology/approach
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Much information in our lives is remembered in a social context, as we often reminisce about shared experiences with others, and more generally remember in the social context of our communities and our cultures. Memory researchers across disciplines and subdisciplines are actively exploring collaborative remembering. However, despite this common in...
Much information in our lives is remembered in a social context, as we often reminisce about shared experiences with others, and more generally remember in the social context of our communities and our cultures. Memory researchers across disciplines and subdisciplines are actively exploring collaborative remembering. However, despite this common in...
We draw upon the Associative Network model of memory, as well as the principles of encoding-retrieval specificity, and cue distinctiveness, to argue that self-generated cue mnemonics offer an intuitive means of facilitating reliable recall of personally experienced events. The use of a self-generated cue mnemonic allows for the spreading activation...
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite logically, to the appealing notion that people can be ‘persuaded’ to change their memories. Indeed, numerous studies show that memory can be influenced and distorted by a variety of persuasive tactics, and the theoretical accounts commonly used by res...
Memory conformity occurs when an individual endorses what other individuals remember about past events. Research on memory conformity is currently dominated by a 'forensic' perspective, which views the phenomenon as inherently undesirable. This is because conformity not only distorts the accuracy of an individual's memory, but also produces false c...
