Connor Pell | University of Chester

Connor is a Graduate Teaching Assistant within the School of Psychology. His research interests are investigative interviewing, offender profiling and crime perceptions. His core teaching area is research methods and statistics, where he assists the teaching of Level 4 and 5 lab classes.

Connor graduated from the University of Chester in 2016 with a degree in Psychology BSc (Hons). He then attained an MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology from the University of Liverpool in 2017. Connor is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) and a member of the Forensic and Investigative Psychology Research Group within the School of Psychology at the University of Chester.

Connor delivers lab classes on the Level 4 Research Methods and Skills module (PS4005), assists the delivery of lab classes for the Level 5 Becoming a Psychological Researcher module (PS5015) and is a tutor on the Level 5 Work Based Learning module (WBL5101).

Connor is a PhD student in the School of Psychology. His research aims to explore the use and effectiveness of summarising in a large sample of real world police interviews with homicide suspects.

Pell, C. (2019). Summarising in police interviews: The development of a coding framework. In S. Beer (Ed.), Postgraduate Research Symposium 2019 (pp. 10). Chester, United Kingdom: University of Chester

Almond, L., Pell, C., & McManus, M. (2018). Body part removal: A thematic exploration of U.K. Homicide Offenses. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518814268

Connor graduated from the University of Chester in 2016 with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and attained an MSc in Investigative and Forensic Psychology from the University of Liverpool in 2017. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Chester which focuses on the use and effectiveness of summarising in police interviews. Connor is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS).