Nicole Adams-Quackenbush is a legal psychology and criminological researcher. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, Nicole completed her BSc (Psychology Honours) at Dalhousie University with a thesis titled "Understanding the Police Caution and Police Questioning". Nicole then completed her MSc (Applied Legal Psychology) at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada with her thesis titled "The Effects of Cognitive Load and Lying Types on Deception Cues".
Nicole completed a double doctorate from the University of Portsmouth (2018) and the University of Maastricht (2019) through an Erasmus Mundus joint doctoral programme offered by The House of Legal Psychology. Her doctoral dissertation is titled "The Influence of Guilt Presumptive Language on Investigative Interviewing Outcomes". Nicole's specific area of expertise involves elicitation and disclosure of information in investigative and security settings.
Nicole is also the founder of an international research group, Research in Investigative Interviewing, Policing, & Law (RIIPL), that is comprised of researchers from the UK, the Netherlands, France, Canada, and the USA. In addition to research collaborations, RIIPL's main focus is student research mentorship and development. Students that join RIIPL participate in a number of tasks at every stage of the research process and receive training for tasks that are not generally covered in Research Methods modules through the Research Training Toolkit (e.g., transcription, interviewing, cleaning and screening data, etc).
Nicole also has over 20 years experience with: Programme evaluation, process improvement, people management and supervision, training and program creation. She also holds credentials for public speaking, presenting, and evaluation through Toastmasters International.
