Joanna Pozzulo

Joanna Pozzulo is a Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University's Department of Psychology within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University and serves as Director of the Mental Health and Well-being Research and Training Hub. Her research focuses on applied forensic psychology, particularly child eyewitness memory and juror decision-making in sexual misconduct cases. Pozzulo's work emphasizes developing evidence-based procedures to improve eyewitness accuracy and reduce wrongful convictions. She also investigates how factors like defendant race, occupational status, and delayed reporting influence juror judgments in sexual assault cases.

Her research is published in journals like Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, with a focus on topics such as racial bias in juror decisions, sexual assault reporting delays, and child trafficking dynamics. Pozzulo is affiliated with The Laboratory for Child Forensic Psychology and contributes to public discourse via her Psychology Today blog, On the Witness Stand.