Research Overview

Maddy is a Research Associate in the University of Lancaster Law School and works on the ‘Trial by gender? Examining jury decision making in cases of rape and sexual abuse involving male victims’ project, alongside Dr Siobhan Weare and Dr Dominic Willmott. Maddy works at the intersection of Psychology and Law and uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to empirically examine how jurors make decisions. Her PhD research examines how jurors experience threat within the criminal trial, how threat perception can impact the distribution of attitudes within the jury, and how compromises to jury diversity can impact normatively desirable decision-making.