Dr Sara Waring PhD, C.Psychol, FHEA, PGCert L&T
Senior Lecturer in Investigative and Forensic Psychology Psychology
- +44 (0)151 795 0668
- Work email S.K.Waring@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttp://www.liv.ac.uk/risk-and-uncertainty/staff/sara-waring/
Professional Activities
Summary
I conduct research with a variety of agencies external to the University, including law enforcement and emergency services, and Public Health England and Wales. I also deliver decision making training for many of these agencies, as well as assisting in the design, delivery and evaluation of large scale disaster response training exercises.
Conference Roles
- Decision Inertia in High Stakes Contexts at Invitation to present in the Criminal and Terrorist Threats: Assessing the Resilience of Underground Infrastructure Workshop, by Invitation (Bergen, Norway, 2017)
- Invitation to present at a CREST conference, by Invitation (Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, 2017)
- Invitation to present at 16th Toward Autonomous Robotic Systems conference, by Invitation (16th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2015)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (2013 - 2015)
- Public Health England (2017 - present)
- Public Health Wales (2018 - present)
- Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (2013 - present)
- London Fire Brigade (2014 - present)
- Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (2015 - present)
- Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (2009 - 2010)
- North West Ambulance Service (2014 - present)
- London Ambulance Service (2014 - present)
- Merseyside Resilience Forum (2014 - present)
- London Resilience Partnership (2015 - present)
- Merseyside Police Service (2010 - present)
- Metropolitan Police Service (2018 - present)
- West Midlands Police (2009)
- West Mercia Police (2008)
- Dorset Police (2007 - 2008)
- National Police Improvement Agency (2009 - 2010)
- Mersey Ferries (2013 - 2014)
- Merseyside Youth Offending Service (2007 - 2008)
- Cheshire East Council (2013 - 2015)
- Barnardo's (2013 - 2015)
- Cheshire Without Abuse (2013 - 2015)
- Hydra Foundation - http://www.hydrafoundation.org (2011 - present)
Professional Body Memberships
- Expert Advisory Group for the Early Action Together Programme, Public Health Wales (Member, 2018 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Module coordinator for PSYC703 Policing and Emergency Response
- Deputy programme director for MSc Investigative and Forensic Psychology
- IPHS lead for the Undergraduate curriculum theme of 'social psychology and individual differences'
- Psychology Department impact lead
- IPHS lead for the 'excellence in research' subgroup of the Psychological Sciences review team