dr. S.J. Watson (Steven)

I am interested in a number of different influences on applied decision making, especially within security and legal contexts. I embrace methodological diversity and my research uses quantitative, qualitative and research synthesis methods.

My primary research areas are police-civilian interactions (e.g. investigative interviews, human intelligence gathering and crisis negotiation), cybercrime, and intimate partner violence. I also conduct research into improving psychological research methods (e.g. via open science) and teaching, with a particular focus on promoting inclusivity.

I believe that applied research requires triangulation between the laboratory and field research and I particularly enjoy working with practitioners and the police. I am always welcome to approaches from academic and non-academic partners of diverse backgrounds to discuss whether we can help solve problems together.

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I am coordinator for the PCRS Master track.

I also coordinate the MSc course Psychology and Crime, and teach an introduction to R within the Advanced Research Methods course. The materials for this R course are available to everyone via the Open Science Framework here: https://osf.io/3bmgz/ 

I also use DataCamp to help teach part of this R course: https://www.datacamp.com/.

I jointly coordinate the Pre-Master Research Practical course and give lectures in the Psychology of Safety module at BSc level.

I also supervise project students during Module 7 (Research Methods), and supervise a number of BSc and MSc students each year.

I have also delivered teaching at the Dutch Police Academy on the Investigations course, and give occasional guest lectures to HBOs.

I am a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

• Psychology

• Psychology

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

 

• 201600161 - Advanced Research Methods for CRS
• 202000349 - Theoretical Models of Societal Safety
• 202000444 - Pre-Master Research Practical

• 201400580 - Psychology and Crime
• 201600161 - Advanced Research Methods for CRS
• 202000349 - Theoretical Models of Societal Safety
• 202000444 - Pre-Master Research Practical

Organisations

• Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Psychology of Conflict, Risk and Safety (PCRS)