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Ruth Croxton is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sunderland, where she joined in 2023. She serves as the recruitment and outreach lead for the School of Psychology. With over two decades of experience in higher education since 2000, Dr. Croxton has taught and conducted research across multiple institutions.
Her educational background includes a PhD in forensic science. She holds several professional certifications:
- Professional Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences
- Chartered Chemist
- Chartered Scientist
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Dr. Croxton's research spans two primary domains. In educational technology, she focuses on using innovative methods to enhance student learning experiences, with current projects examining the use of memes in teaching and developing virtual reality crime scenes for training. Her forensic science research centers on latent fingermark analysis, including studying fingermark chemistry to derive information about individuals and developing new enhancement techniques for forensic evidence.
Her teaching portfolio includes multiple undergraduate psychology courses such as:
- PSYC102 The Building Blocks of Psychological Research (Module Leader)
- PSYC104 Brain and Behaviour: Biological Psychology, Individual Differences and Quantitative Methods
- PSYC105 Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology
- PSYC202 Human Development and Cognition: Developmental, Cognitive and Quantitative Psychology
- PSY332 Empirical Project
- PSY388 Psychology Placement Research
Dr. Croxton also has research interests in drug abuse, trace evidence, and interpretation of forensic evidence.
