Dr Gary Lancaster

Biography

?I started out in my working life with ten years as an electronics engineer before waking up one morning in 2003 and deciding I'd much rather study Psychology instead. In 2004 I began at the University of Portsmouth and spent eight very happy years there, during which time I completed a BSc in Psychology; an MSc in Psychological Research Methods and lastly a PhD under the supervision of Professors Aldert Vrij and Lorraine Hope, and Dr Bridget Waller. In my PhD I demonstrated that people who were lying during an investigative style interview performed worse on a secondary task than people who were telling the truth. As a postgraduate I also discovered I had a love for teaching and spent four years as an associate psychology lecturer.

After leaving the University of Portsmouth in 2012 I spent four years in the civil service as a Senior Applied Cognitive Psychologist. This role gave me the opportunity to take what I had learnt in my academic studies and use it on a wide range of real-world problems and within a challenging applied setting. I joined the University of Winchester in October 2016 as a Lecturer in Psychology.

I serve on the RKE Ethics committee as the HSS representative and I am currently the main Ethics reviewer for the HSS Faculty. I also have responsibility for all Undergraduate and MSc level ethical review within the Psychology department.

Areas of expertise

Detecting of deception; Investigative interviewing; Research Methods; Research design; Research Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Social Psychology; Statistical Analysis.

Publications

• Lancaster, G.L.J., Bayless, S.J., & Punia, R. (2020) Examining how the presence, absence and numerical value of a grade affects students’ perceptions of assessment feedback.  Psychology Teaching Review, 26(2).
• Knight, S., Woodward, K., & Lancaster, G. L. (2017). Violent versus nonviolent actors: An empirical study of different types of extremism. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 4(4), 230.
• ?Deeb H., Vrij, A,. Hope, L., Mann. S,. Granhag, P-A, & Lancaster, G. (2016) Suspects' consistency in statements concerning two events when different question formats are used. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 14 (1). pp. 74-87.
• Lancaster, G. L. J., Vrij, A., Hope, L., & Waller, B. (2013). Sorting the liars from the truth tellers: the benefits of asking unanticipated questions on lie detection. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27(1), 107-114.
• Satchell, L. P., Fido, D., Harper, C. A., Shaw, H., Davidson, B., Ellis, D. A., Hart, C. M., Jalil, R., Bartoli, A. J., Kaye, L. K., Lancaster, G. L. J., & Pavetich, M. (2020). Development of an Oine-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01462-9