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David La Rooy Ph.D. (Chartered Psychologist) currently holds a research lectureship funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), and is also the programme tutor for the forensic psychobiology degree at the University of Abertay, Dundee.

Background
Dr. La Rooy received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Otago (NZ) in 2003 studying children's memory. He then completed a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH) supervised by Professor Michael Lamb. He moved to London (UK) in 2006, taking up a lecturing post at Kingston University, before moving to the University of Abertay, Dundee where he is currently based. Dr La Rooy has received training in the NICHD interviewing protocol and in the assessment of the quality of forensic interviews with children. He has also completed a JIIT (Joint Investigative Interviewers Training) course with the Tayside Police department (Scotland) and Forensic Interviewer Training by Heather Steward, at the Salt Lake County Children's Justice Center, Utah.

Professional Research
Dr. La Rooy’s research focuses on forensic interviews with children and guidelines for interviewers. His area of particular expertise is use of repeated interviews in forensic investigations.

Selected Publications
Children's Testimony: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Forensic Practice, 2nd Edition. New York: Wiley (2011). ISBN 978-0-470-68678-2

Tell Me What Happened: Structured Investigative Interviews of Child Victims and Witnesses. New York: Wiley (2008). ISBN 0470518669