Senior Lecturer

School of Psychology, Social Work and Human Sciences

University of West London

United Kingdom

Chartered Psychologist: British Psychological Society (C.Psychol) Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) The International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG).

Dr. Drakes primary research expertise and interests include: (i) Forensic Psychology: specifically, police investigative interviewing; interrogative suggestibility; compliance and false confessions, and (ii) Developmental Psychology: the effects of attachment, contextual risk factors and stress-sensitivity on the development of suggestibility, compliance and psychopathology; and (iii) quantitative research methods – statistical modelling (regression, factor analysis, structural equation modelling and longitudinal data analysis especially).