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Katie is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Deputy Director (Public Engagement) for the Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR) at Bath. Her research interests lie in applied cognitive psychology, with two main strands: autism and eyewitness/forensic psychology. Her current work, funded by the ESRC and BA/Leverhulme, focuses on how autistic adults think and communicate differently, and what adaptations service providers can make to accommodate these differences. Katie is particularly interested in how autistic people fare when they are interviewed by the police as a witness or as a suspect of an alleged offence. For example, her research shows that current police interviewing techniques do not elicit ‘best evidence’ from autistic individuals and that interviewers need to adapt their questioning styles in order to obtain detailed, relevant and accurate information about an event from them. She is currently extending this work under an ESRC ‘Future Research Leaders’ grant to explore how employers and healthcare professionals can adapt the ways that they communicate with autistic job seekers and patients.
Keywords
- Autism
- Memory
- Cognition
- Criminal justice system
- Forensic psychology
- Investigative interviewing
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Projects
EPS small grant credibility study of autistic interviewees (employment interviews)
EPS - Experimental Psychology Society
20/05/19 → 19/05/20
Project: UK charity
ESRC Future Research Leaders - Reporting by People with Autism: A New Evidence Based Supportive Model of Information Gathering for Applied Interviews Contexts
31/08/17 → 14/01/21
Project: Research council
IAA REF Autism Awareness
Brosnan, M., Ashwin, C., Maras, K. & Russell, A.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/04/19 → 31/10/19
Project: Research council
The Effect of Working Memory Load on Effective Information Filtering in Autism Spectrum Disorder
1/05/15 → 30/04/18
Project: Research council
Experiences of Autism and Policing: Where are we now and where do we go next?
20/06/14 → 28/02/15
Project: Research council
Research Output
Autism in the Courtroom
Crane, L. & Maras, K., 21 Jan 2020, Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Volkmar, F. (ed.). SpringerResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Interviewing autistic adults: Adaptations to support recall in police, employment, and healthcare interviews
Norris, J., Crane, L. & Maras, K., 23 Mar 2020, In : Autism.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Metacognitive monitoring and control of eyewitness memory reports in autism
Maras, K., Norris, J. & Brewer, N., 13 Feb 2020, In : Autism Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The Witness-Aimed First Account (WAFA): A new technique for interviewing autistic witnesses and victims
Maras, K., Dando, C., Stephenson, H., Lambrechts, A., Anns, S. & Gaigg, S., 22 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Autism.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Brief report: Perceived credibility of autistic witnesses and the effect of diagnostic information on credibility ratings
Maras, K., Crane, L., Walker, I. & Memon, A., 1 Dec 2019, In : Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 68, 101442.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Thesis
Understanding offending behaviours and the autism spectrum
Author: Payne, K., 3 Apr 2019Supervisor: Brosnan, M. (Supervisor), Russell, A. (Supervisor) & Maras, K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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