Harriet Smailes

ORCID: 0000-0003-0430-7053
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Research Areas
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Legal Issues in South Africa
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies

University of Birmingham
2024-2025

University of Leicester
2018-2025

University College Birmingham
2025

Sexual violence is a global problem with significant individual and societal health social costs. Services that support victim‐survivors of sexual across range sectors are crucial. This study investigated the scope, range, funding commissioning voluntary sector specialist (VSS) services in England victim‐survivors’ experiences using such services. The plays pivotal role providing crisis longer‐term to victim‐survivors. However, there limited empirical evidence about use VSS provision, or...

10.1155/hsc/9368961 article EN cc-by Health & Social Care in the Community 2025-01-01

Summary There is widespread belief in the legal system that alcohol impairs witness testimony. Nevertheless, most laboratory studies examining effects of on testimony suggest may affect number correct but not incorrect details recalled. However, it difficult to draw conclusions because sample sizes, testing paradigms, and recall measures vary between individual studies. We conducted a meta‐analysis address this issue. found intoxication had significant moderate sized effect recalled ( g =...

10.1002/acp.3533 article EN Applied Cognitive Psychology 2019-02-04

There is increasing recognition in England that voluntary sector specialist sexual violence services are essential providing crisis and longer-term support to victim-survivors. However, there limited empirical evidence about the scope, range effectiveness of provision commissioning, or what victim-survivors want from services. Explore victim-survivors' experiences accessing using Analyse range, scope funding how demand managed. usefulness different approaches service delivery therapy models....

10.3310/wwkt3077 article EN cc-by Health and Social Care Delivery Research 2025-04-01

The specialist voluntary sector plays a crucial role in supporting survivors of sexual violence. However, England, short-term funding underpins the sector's financial stability. This article examines leaders’ ways coping, resisting and being affected by practices. Using concept edgework, we show how commissioning dynamics push individuals to edge service sustainability, job satisfaction, emotional well-being. We examine these edges are “worked,” for example, circumventing remolding edge....

10.1177/10778012241239945 article EN cc-by Violence Against Women 2024-03-21

In England, voluntary sector specialist (VSS) services are central to supporting victim-survivors of sexual violence (SV). However, empirical evidence is lacking about the scope, range and effectiveness VSS provision for SV in England.

10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087810 article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMJ Open 2024-09-01

We tested whether there are age-related declines in detecting cues to trustworthiness, a skill that has been demonstrated be rapid and automatic younger adults. Young (Mage = 21.2 years) older 70.15 adults made criminal appearance judgments unfamiliar faces, which were presented at duration of 100, 500 or 1,000 ms. Participants' response times judgment confidence recorded. Older poorer than young judging trustworthiness 100 ms, slower overall making their judgments. Further, the (i.e....

10.1080/13218719.2018.1477633 article EN Psychiatry Psychology and Law 2018-06-19
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