a bit about me:
I am a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln.
I work on face perception. My research interests span three areas:
1. Face recognition and face learning
2. Social information conveyed by faces
3. They use of automatic face recognition technology, particularly in criminal justice
I take a great interest in public engagement. I have appeared on BBC One, in 2019 I was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Award, and I am the city coordinator for the Pint of Science festival. Have a look at the Public Engagement page for more information.
I joined the department at Lincoln as a lecturer in September 2016, and was promoted to senior lecturer in June 2018. Prior to this I worked in Mike Burton's lab at the University of York on projects funded by the ESRC and ERC. During my postdoc I visited the Face Lab at UWA on a four-month Australian government Endeavour Fellowship.
Prior to my work on face recognition, I completed my PhD with the Vision and Attention Labs at the University of Aberdeen in 2013. My PhD work focused on visual attention and awareness using eye movements, patients with brain damage, and binocular rivalry techniques to study the way we process the visual world. I graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2009 with an MA in psychology (1st class hons).
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I am a member of the EPS, BPS, BPS Cognitve Section committee, Associate Investigator of the ARC's Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), and an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
News
June 2021 - New paper "Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities" (Sculley, Ritchie & Watkins, Computers in Human Behavior)
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May 2021 - Hosted 3 Pint of Science live shows on YouTube
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March 2021 - New paper "Multiple-image arrays in face matching tasks with and without memory" (Ritchie, Kramer, Mileva, Sandford & Burton, Cognition)
March 2021 - New paper "The importance of out-group characteristics for the own-group face memory bias" (Fuller, Majolo, Flack & Ritchie, Visual Cognition)
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March 2021 - New paper "The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers" (Noyes, Davis, Petrov, Gray & Ritchie, Royal Society Open Science)
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Feb 2021 - Live online talk at Nerd Nite London
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Feb 2021 - New paper "Unfamiliar face matching, within-person variability, and multiple-image arrays" (Sandford & Ritchie, Visual Cognition)
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September 2020 - Hosted Pint of Science live show on YouTube, 'The weird world of curiosity'
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February 2020 - New paper "The importance of first impression judgements in interspecies interactions" (Clark, Butler, Ritchie & Marechal, Scientific Reports)
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February 2020 - Submitted written evidence with David White (UNSW) to the Scottish Parliament Justice Sub-Committee on Policing's inquiry into automatic face recognition
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January 2020 - Presented work from my BA grant at the Unfamiliar Face Identification Group in Sydney, Australia
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January 2020 - Attended Face Expertise Workshop at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
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December 2019 - Paper accepted "Searching for faces in crowd chokepoint videos" (Kramer, Hardy & Ritchie, Applied Cognitive Psychology)
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December 2019 - Hosted an evening with former NASA astronaut, Steve Swanson (part of my role as Pint of Science coordinator)
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