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University of Greenwich: Outstanding Achievement in Enterprise Award Winner

Students’ Union: University of Greenwich Student-Led Teaching Awards: Supervisor of the Year

Students’ Union: University of Greenwich Student-Led Teaching Awards: Extra Mile Award (short list)

Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society

Member of the European Association of Psychology and Law

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society 

Perceptual tuning through contact? Contact interacts with perceptual (not memory-based) face-processing ability to predict cross-race recognition

The Goldsmiths Unfamiliar Face Memory and Before They Were Adult Tests

Performance of Typical and Superior Face Recognisers on a Novel Interactive Face Matching Procedure

Super‐recognisers: Face recognition performance after variable delay intervals

Evaluating Earwitness Identification Procedures: The Effect of Pre-parade Instructions

Dr Josh Davis is a Reader in Applied Psychology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich. His area of expertise is in facial recognition - and in particular ‘super recognisers’ (people with the exceptional memory of faces). He works with police forces around the world (such as in the UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, and Singapore) to address speedier and more effective methods of suspect identification through super recognisers’ analysis of CCTV footage. His work contributes to improvements in eye witnessing, identifying of false confessions, and addressing miscarriages of justice. 

Josh is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His PhD was on the Forensic Identification of Unfamiliar Faces in CCTV Images and he has since published 33 research articles on human face recognition and eyewitness identification, the reliability of facial composite systems (E-FITs), and methods used by expert witnesses to provide evidence of identification in court (facial comparison evidence). His first co-edited book Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV was published in 2015.

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Super Recognisers Greenwich

Take This Online Test To See You if You Have a Face-Recognizing Superpower

Are you a ‘super-recogniser’ of faces? Take this test to find out

The eagle-eyed squad who never forget a face: NEIL TWEEDIE meets the 'super recognisers' of the elite police unit that spot suspects from years ago

Meet the gifted individuals 'super recognisers' who can NEVER forget a face

How police super-recognisers cracked the Russian novichok case

Professor in Applied Psychology

This video is copyright BBC and is uploaded for educational purposes. It features an interview by Andy Jones with Dr Josh P Davis and super-recognisers from New Scotland Yard, Metropolitan Police. Dr Davis is always looking for people who think they may be super-recognisers to take his online and face-to-face face recognition tests at the University of Greenwich. We will be starting some brain scanning work in September 2014 as well.  Please contact him at his university e-mail address (easy to find if you put the university and his name into Google)

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/eduhea/study/pswc/staff/josh-davis

Inside Out BBC1 19 October 2015: Super-recognisers (Dr Josh P Davis)

Could you be a super-recogniser? Why not try this quick test here: http://www.joshpdavis.org.uk/#!news/mainPage

(c) Planetopia (Germany): Dr Josh P Davis (University of Greenwich): Short interview and demonstration experiment on super-recognisers

For more information see: www.joshpdavis.org.uk

Dr Josh P Davis discussing super-recognisers on Planetopia Overdubbed in German! 23 July 2012

Could you be a super-recogniser? Why not try this quick test here: http://www.joshpdavis.org.uk/#!news/mainPage

This is a clip from the One Show (BBC1, 7PM), from 9th April 2013, featuring a piece on super-recognisers in the police, as well as an interview with Dr Josh P Davis (University of Greenwich) and a demonstration experiment. The copyright for this is owned by BBC Scotland.

Could you be a super-recogniser? Why not try this quick test here: http://www.joshpdavis.org.uk/#!news/mainPage


For more information see: www.joshpdavis.org.uk

Super-recognisers (The One Show, BBC 1 Scotland): Dr Josh P Davis (University of Greenwich)

This video is copyright ITV and is uploaded for educational purposes. It features an interview with Dr Josh P Davis on This Morning (ITV) on 26 September 2013 with Holly Willoughby, Philip Schofield, Sue Hill and Chief Detective Inspector Mick Neville from New Scotland Yard, Metropolitan Police. Dr Davis is always looking for people who think they may be super-recognisers to take his online and face-to-face face recognition tests at the University of Greenwich. We will be starting some brain scanning work in September 2014 as well.  Please contact him at his university e-mail address (easy to find if you put the university and his name into Google)

This Morning (ITV) interview on super-recognisers with Dr Josh P Davis

This video has been uploaded for educational reasons only and the copyright is owned by CBS. It features interviews with Dr Josh P Davis and DCI Mick Neville and Mark Phillips from CBS This Morning filmed at New Scotland Yard the HQ of the Metropolitan Police Service on 12 November 2013. Dr Davis is always looking for volunteers (particularly super-recognisers) who would like to participate in research. If you are interested please contact him on his University of Greenwich e-mail (enter the university and his name into Google to find it)

London police using crime fighting super-recognisers (CBS) Interview with Dr Josh P Davis

This video is copyright NTR TV (Netherlands) and has been uploaded for educational purposes only. It features Astronaut and TV Interviewer - Andre Kuipers as well as Dr Josh P Davis (University of Greenwich), and DCI Mick Neville (New Scotland Yard, Metropolitan Police Service). Dr Josh is always looking for super-recognisers from around the world to take his tests. He can contacted here: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/eduhea/study/pswc/staff/josh-davis

Face Recognition (man v machine): w super-recognisers

This video is copyright BBC and is uploaded for educational purposes. It features an interview with Dr Josh P Davis on BBC 1 London News. Dr Davis is always looking for people who think they may be super-recognisers to take his online and face-to-face face recognition tests at the University of Greenwich. We have started some brain scanning work as well.  Please contact him at his university e-mail address (easy to find if you put the university and his name into Google)

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/eduhea/study/pswc/staff/josh-davis

BBC News 19 October 2015: Article on super-recognisers

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