Dr Genevieve Waterhouse

Biography

Dr Genevieve Waterhouse studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2008. She then worked for NACRO, the crime reduction charity, teaching teenagers who had dropped out of the education system. In 2012, she completed her MSc in Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester and began her PhD at London South Bank University. Supervised by Dr Rachel Wilcock, Dr Anne Ridley and Professor Ray Bull, her PhD focussed on the investigative interviewing of child victims and witnesses.

While completing her PhD, Genevieve taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at London South Bank, and spent three months working at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology writing a briefing note for MPs and Peers on policing domestic abuse. In August 2016, she was appointed as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Winchester.

Higher Education Teaching Qualification: Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

Areas of expertise

• Investigative Interviewing
• Child Victims/Witnesses
• Domestic Abuse
• Rape Offences and Rape Myths

Publications

• Waterhouse, Genevieve F., Ridley, A. M., Bull, R., La Rooy, D., & Wilcock, R. (2018). Mapping Repeated Interviews. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11896-018-9288-7
• Waterhouse, Genevieve F. and Ridley, Anne M. and Bull, Ray and LaRooy, David and Wilcock, Rachel (2016) Dynamics of Repeated Interviews with Children. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30 (5). pp. 713-721.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Reynolds, A., & Egan, V. (2016). Myths and legends: The reality of rape offences reported to a UK Police force. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 8, 1-10. 
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.  (2015). Policing Domestic Abuse.
• Waterhouse, G., Ridley, A., Wilcock, R., & Bull, R.  (2015). Investigative interviewing in England and Wales: Adults, children, and the provision of support for child witnesses. In D. Walsh, G. Oxburgh, A. Redlich, & T. Myklebust (Eds.), Contemporary developments and practices in investigative interviewing and interrogation: An international perspective. Vol. I: Victims and witnesses (pp 112-129).

Conferences

• Waterhouse, G. F., Ridley, A., Bull, R., & Wilcock, R. (2018, July).  A Study Space Analysis for Multiple Interviewing of Child Witnesses. Oral presentation at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group Conference, Porto, Portugal. 
• Waterhouse, G. F., Ridley, A., Bull, R., & Wilcock, R. (2017, July). Multiple Interview Presentation Styles and Rapport-Building?.  Oral presentation at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group Conference, Monterey, USA.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Ridley, A., Wilcock, R., & Bull, R.  (2016, July).  Rapport-building in repeated interviews of children.  Oral presentation at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Toulouse, France.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Ridley, A., Wilcock, R., & Bull, R.  (2016, June).  Rapport-building in repeated interviews of children.  Oral presentation at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group Conference, London, UK.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Wilcock, R., Ridley, A., Bull, R., & La Rooy, D.  (2015, August).  Repeated interviews of children: The use of social support and same or different interviewers. Oral presentation at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Nuremberg, Germany.
• Waterhouse, G., Wilcock,  R., Ridley, A., Bull, R., & La Rooy, D.  (2015, August).  Mapping multiple interviews.  Poster presentation at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Nuremberg, Germany.
• Waterhouse, G. F.  (2015, July). Psychology at university.  Oral presentation at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Faversham, UK.
• Waterhouse, G. F. (2014, September).  Communication with children.  Oral presentation for teachers at primary schools around London and surrounding counties.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Ridley, A., Wilcock, R., Bull, R., & La Rooy, D.  (2014, June).  An analysis of repeated interviews: Changes in interviewer behaviour and child interviewees’ responses.  Oral presentation at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Waterhouse, G. F., Reynolds, A., & Egan, V.  (2013, September).  Myths and legends: The reality of rape offences reported to a UK police force.  Poster presentation at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference, Coventry, UK. 
• Waterhouse, G. F.  (2012, September).  An analysis of the rapes reported to Northamptonshire Police during 2010 and 2011.  Oral presentation at the Northamptonshire Rape Prevention Group meeting.