Mark Kebbell
Associate Professor Mark Kebbell is a Chief Investigator with the Australian Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. His expertise and research is in the area of Investigative Psychology particularly with regards the investigation and prosecution of serious crime. Within the Centre he is the lead Chief Investigator on the Risky People and Intelligence Methods. In addition, he is working on an investigative interviewing project with colleagues Powell and Hughes-Scholes and Victoria Police Service.
His previous work has included writing the guidelines for police officers in England and Wales (with Wagstaff) for the assessment of eyewitness evidence and a review of factors associated with violent extremism for the National Policing Improvement Agency commissioned by the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism in the UK (with J. Cole, B. Cole, & Alison).
He has worked on more than seventy criminal cases, principally involving murder or serious sexual assault, and has given expert evidence on numerous occasions including uncontested psychological evidence in an Old Bailey appeal case. Academically, the quality of his work has been recognised by the award of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Younger Scholars. He is the Editor, with Professor Graham Davies of the book "Practical Psychology for Forensic Investigations and Prosecutions" published by Wiley.