Research Hub
Selected publications and research outputs from CSEL members.
Refugee and Asylum
Cross Cultural Communication
Hoemann and Mesquita (2024) How culture shapes the stories we tell about our emotions.
Morrison, L., Given-Wilson, Z., & Memon, A. (2024). The Impact of Emotionally Evocative Information on Interpreting Accuracy in a Mock Asylum Interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(2), Article e4185. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4185
Vredeveldt, A., Given-Wilson, Z. & Memon, A. (2023). Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1–21.
Posttraumatic Stress and Mental Health in Refugees
Hellmann, J. H., Übergünne-Otte, L., Heimlich, S., Kalyegira, J., Echterhoff, G., Memon, A., Knausenberger, J., & Schlechter, P. (2021). Ugandan and British individuals’ views of refugees in their countries: An exploratory mixed-methods comparison. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
Memon, A., Connolly, D., Brewin, C. R., Meyer, T., Seidel, J., Anderson, S., … & Arntz, A (2021). How do Adults with Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder from Childhood Trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas? Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3820
Rogers, H., Fox, S. and Herlihy, J. (2015). The importance of looking credible: the impact of the behavioural sequelae of post-traumatic stress disorder on the credibility of asylum seekers. Psychology, Crime & Law 21(2) 139-155
Jones, W., and Teytelboym, A. (2018). The Local Refugee Match: Aligning Refugees Preferences with the Capacities and Priorities of Communities. Journal of Refugee Studies 31(2) 152-178
Wilson-Shaw, L., Pistrang, N. and Herlihy, J. (2012). Non-clinicians’ judgments about asylum seekers’ mental health: How do legal representatives of asylum seekers decide when to request medico-legal reports? European Journal of Psychotraumatology 3 18406
Credibility and Decisions
Cochrane, C., and Rosselson, R. (ed) (2012). Evidence in Practice: CSEL Research Dissemination Project for Women Toolkit
Herlihy, J., Evans Cameron, H., and Turner, S. (2024) Psychological Research Evidence in Refugee Status Determination. Journal of Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead043
Herlihy, J., and Turner, S. (2015). Untested assumptions: psychological research and credibility assessment in legal decision-making. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 6(1) 27380
Herlihy, J., Gleeson, K. and Turner, S. (2010). What Assumptions about Human Behaviour Underlie Asylum Judgments? International Journal of Refugee Law 22(3) 351-366
Herlihy, J., & Turner, S.W. (2006). Should discrepant accounts given by asylum seekers be taken as proof of deceit? Torture 16(2) 81-92
Memory and Disclosure
Bögner, D., Brewin, C. and Herlihy, J. (2010). Refugees’ Experiences of Home Office Interviews: A Qualitative Study on the Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(3) 519-535
Bögner, D., Herlihy, J. and Brewin, C. (2007). The impact of sexual violence on disclosure during Home Office interviews. British Journal of Psychiatry 191 75-81
Graham, B., Herlihy, J. and Brewin, C.R. (2014). Overgeneral memory in asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 45 375-380
Herlihy, J., Jobson, L. and Turner, S. (2012). Just Tell Us What Happened to You: Autobiographical Memory and Seeking Asylum. Applied Cognitive Psychology 26 661–676
Herlihy, J., Scragg P, and Turner S. (2002). Discrepancies in autobiographical memories-implications for the assessment of asylum seekers: repeated interviews study. British Medical Journal 324 324-7
Child Asylum Issues
Childs, S., Given-Wilson, Z., Butler, S. Memon, A. & Gudjonsson, G. (2021). Vulnerability to Interrogative Suggestibility and the role of negative life events: A comparison of unaccompanied asylum seeking youth with age-matched peers. Personality and Individual Differences.
Clayton, S., A. Gupta and Willis, K. (eds) (2019). Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care & Justice. Policy Press
Given-Wilson, Z., Hodes, M. and Herlihy, J. (2018). A review of adolescent autobiographical memory and the implications for assessment of unaccompanied minors’ refugee determinations. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 23(2) 209-222
Given-Wilson, Z., Herlihy, J., and Hodes, M. (2016). Telling the Story: A Psychological Review on Assessing Adolescents’ Asylum Claims. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne 57(4) Nov 2016 265-273
Techology and Artifical Intelligence
Memon, A., Given-Wilson, Z., Ozkul, D., Richmond, K., Muraszkiewicz, J., Weldon, E., & Katona, C. (2024). Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the asylum system. Medicine Science and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00258024241227721
Evans-Cameron, H., Ransome, M., Sparrow-Mungal, T., Srirajasingam, C., Xavier, TJ, Yu, A. (2025). Virtual Hearings Circle: Report 2025. https://rshare.library.torontomu.ca/articles/report/Virtual_Hearings_Circle_Report_2025/29613656
Interrogative Interviews
Memon, A., Meissner, C. A., & Fraser, J. (2010). The cognitive interview: A meta-analytic review and study space analysis of the past 25 years. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 16(4), 340–372. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020518
Human Rights and Identity in Law
Human Bias in Law
Barn, R; Feilzer, M. & Hardwick, N. (2018) Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales: Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data. Social Sciences 7, 226. pp1-16
Barn, R., & Powers, R. A. (2018) Rape Myth Acceptance in Contemporary Times: A Comparative Study of University Students in India and the United Kingdom. Journal of interpersonal violence, 0886260518775750.
Begum, L. & Barn, R. (2019) Crossing Boundaries: Bras, Lingerie and Rape Myths in Postcolonial Urban Middle-class India, Gender, Place & Culture, 26(10), 1324-1344.
Feminism in Law
Alghrani, A., Ali, A., & Marshall, J. (2019). Leyla Sahin v Turkey. In L. Hodson & T. Lavers (Eds.), Feminist Judgments in International Law (1st. ed., pp.203-230). Hart Publishing
Brickell, K., and Cuomo, D. (2019). Feminist geolegality. Progress in Human Geography 43(1) 104-122
Brickell, K. (2016). Gendered violences and rule of/by law in Cambodia. Dialogues in human geography 6(2) 182-185
Cuomo, D., and Brickell, K., (2019). Feminist legal geographies. Economy and Space 51(5) 1043-1049
Marshall, J. (2021). Social Conditions of Freedom, International Human Rights Law and Women’s Dress: identity, belonging and recognition. In A. Matwijkiw & A. Oriolo (Eds.), Law, Cultural Studies and the “Burqa Ban” Trend: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Intersentia Ltd.
Human Rights and Identity
Marshall, J., (2018). Secrecy in births, identity rights, care and belonging. Child and Family Law Quarterly 30 167-185
Marshall, J., (2016). Human Rights, Identity and the Legal Regulation of Dress. Nottingham Law Journal 25 73-85
Marshall, J., (2014). Human Rights Law and Personal Identity. Routledge