Professor Tim Valentine

Tim works to understand our ability to recognise people’s faces, currently focussing on eyewitness identification.

Staff details

Professor Tim Valentine

Position

Emeritus Professor

Department

Psychology

Email

t.valentine (@gold.ac.uk)

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

Bull, Ray; Valentine, Tim and Williamson, Tom, eds. 2009. Handbook of psychology of investigative interviewing: current developments and future directions. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-51267-8

Book Section

Valentine, Tim. 2014. Estimating the reliability of eyewitness identification. In: T.J. Perfect and D. S. Lindsay, eds. Sage handbook of applied memory. London: Sage, pp. 579-594. ISBN 978-1-4462-0842-7

Valentine, Tim; Hughes, Carwyn and Munro, Rod. 2009. Recent developments in eyewitness identification procedures in the United Kingdom. In: Ray Bull; Tim Valentine and Tom Williamson, eds. The handbook of psychology of investigative interviewing. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 221-240. ISBN 0470512687

Article

Valentine, Tim; Hills, Peter J and Lewis, Michael B. 2016. Face-space: A unifying concept in face recognition research. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(10), pp. 1996-2019. ISSN 1747-0218

Davis, Josh P.; Valentine, Tim; Memon, Amina and Roberts, Andrew J.. 2015. Identification on the street: a field comparison of police street identifications and video line-ups in England. Psychology, Crime and Law, 21(1), pp. 1-19. ISSN 1068-316X

Roberts, Andrew; Davis, Josh; Valentine, Tim and Memon, Amina. 2014. Should We Be Concerned About Street Identifications? Criminal Law Review(9), pp. 633-654. ISSN 0011-135X

Research Interests

Tim's research is about our ability to recognise and identify people’s faces. His current research is focussed on factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness identification. Previously, he has worked extensively on 'face-space' models of face recognition, with emphasis on the roles of facial distinctiveness, ethnicity and caricature. Other projects have included work on rehabilitation of face memory after brain injury and exploring the structure of our knowledge for familiar people. He regularly provides expert advice on identification issues in criminal cases.