Welcome to our webinar series - iIIRG in Conversation.
A series of iIIRG webinars featuring presentations and conversations with leading academics, practitioners and students across the field of Investigative Interviewing.
The next of our 2025 series of iIIRG in Conversation webinars takes place on Tuesday, 13th February at 4:00 pm (CET) / 3:00 pm (BST) / 10:00 am (EDT).
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Our Panelists
Dr Kate Haworth
Dr Brandon May
Adrian Gates
Dr Haworth’s abstract:
My talk will discuss audio-recording of police interviews with suspects in England & Wales, through a linguistic lens. We’ll consider what led to the introduction of the mandatory requirement to audio-record interviews, the impact recording has on the interview room interaction, and the huge benefits from the perspective of fair play (for all parties) and the protection of rights. However, no matter how good an interview is, its evidential value depends entirely on the quality of the official version of record, especially as presented in court. Despite the availability of the recording, this is all too often still a written transcript or summary, which inevitably distorts the evidence. I will present the key findings to date of the ‘For The Record’ project, a partnership with E&W police devised to improve evidential consistency and quality in official police interview records.