Dr Sophie Nightingale
Senior Lecturer in PsychologyResearch Interests
My research interests concern the fast-moving area of digital technology and its effects on memory, cognition, and behaviour. I frequently combine methodological techniques from experimental psychology and computer science to address topical issues, such as identity fraud, online harm, forensic identification, and applied artificial intelligence. My research has implications for policy and practice within many domains and aims to ensure that technology is used in a manner that promotes fairness and wellbeing for all. In addition to the real-world applications, my findings contribute to theoretical understanding of human perception and models of memory processing.
Currently, I am particularly interested in conducting research in the following areas:
- Understanding and enhancing people’s ability to detect fake content (e.g., digitally manipulated images, such as deep fakes)
- The role of social media in the spread of misinformation
- Improving expert forensic identification decision-making techniques
- Examining bias in machine learning and finding ways to evaluate and improve techniques
DSI:SL FLF: Mapping and mitigating the threats to ordinary people from deep fakes
14/11/2024 → 13/11/2028
Research
Older adults’ vulnerability to deception in new digital technologies
01/10/2024 → 31/03/2028
Research
SL: DCQ: NetworkPlus for Analytical Behavioural Science (NABS+) in Security and Defence
01/04/2024 → 31/03/2027
Research
DSI: SL: Examining options for accurate inference of social data from limited datasets in military scenarios
01/11/2023 → 30/09/2024
Research
SL: Trust, Rights and Identity in the Metaverse (TRIM)
01/05/2023 → 31/08/2023
Research
DSI:SL: Computational Social Science – Social Data Bias
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2025
Research
SL: Meeting the Policing demand of a digital world using an evidence-based approach
01/04/2023 → 30/09/2024
Research
QR code fraud
01/01/2023 → 30/06/2026
Research
DSI:SL: Computational Social Science – Social Data Bias
01/07/2022 → 31/03/2025
Research
Biometric-based artificial intelligence to identify suspects of serious crime in large datasets
01/09/2021 → 31/08/2022
Research
Computational Social Science – Social Data Bias
01/09/2021 → 31/07/2022
Research
Examining the Effect of AI and Human Guidance on Human Decision Making
Oral presentation
- Security Lancaster
- Security Lancaster (Policing)
- Social Processes