Dr Andrew Clark

Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology

Andrew Clark

I joined the School of Psychology in 2016 after completing a PhD in Legal Psychology at the University of Portmsouth/Maastricht University.

I teach Psychology & Criminal Justice on the BSc Forensic Psychology course and Investigative Psychology on the MSc Forensic Psychology Course.

I am interested in memory and exploring way in which our memory for past events can become distorted.



  • PhD Legal Psychology – University of Portsmouth & Maastricht University (NL) 2013-2016
  • MRes Psychology – University of Hull – 2010-2011
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology – University of Hull – 2007-2010

I am the course coordinator for BSc Forensic Psychology.

I coordinate a number of units:

  • Psychology & Criminal Justice (Level 5)
  • Investigative Psychology (Level 7)
  • MSc Forensic Psychology Dissertation (Level 7)

I also supervise dissertation/research students at Level 6, 7 and PhD


  • Eyewitness memory (recalling events and identifications)
  • Nonbelieved memories (the impact of challenging memories)
  • Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)

  • Clark, A., Hope, L., Otgaar, H., Ost, J., Sauer, J., Merckelbach, H., Kontogianni, F., & Pedrero Núñez, R. (2017). 'Social feedback results in omissions but not nonbelieved memories. Presentation at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Sydney, Australia.
  • Clark, A., Hope, L., Otgaar, H., Ost, J., Sauer, J., Merckelbach, H., Kontogianni, F., & Pedrero Núñez, R. The consequences of not believing: Nonbelieved memories are not precursors to memory omission errors. Presentation at the International Conference on Memory, Budapest, Hungry. (July 2016 – talk in a symposium on belief and recollection).
  • Clark, A., Hope, L., Otgaar, H., Ost, J., Sauer, J. (2015). Are memory omissions related to nonbelieved memories? Presentation at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Victoria, British Columbia, CA.
  • Clark, A., Nash R. A., Fincham, G., Mazzoni, G. (2012). Creating Non-Believed Memories for Recent Autobiographical Events. Presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society, Hull, UK.

Rechdan, J., & Clark, A. (2023). Misreporting episodic memories: Causes and consequences for the criminal legal system. The Future of Forensic Psychology, 9-21.

Mazzoni, G., Clark, A., De Bartolo, A., Guerrini, C., Nahouli, Z., Duzzi, D., ... & Venneri, A. (2019). Brain activation in highly superior autobiographical memory: the role of the praecuneus in the autobiographical memory retrieval network. Cortex.

Scoboria, A., Memon, A., Gawrylowicz, J., Clark, A. (2015). Nonbelieved memories across the adult lifespan. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Clark, A., Wang, J., & Merckelbach, H. (2015). What if you went to the police and accused your uncle of abuse? Misunderstandings concerning the benefits of memory distortion: A commentary on Fernández (2015). Consciousness and Cognition.

Mazzoni, G., Clark, A., & Nash, R. A. (2014). Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief in occurrence but not judgments of remembering. Acta Psychologica, 145, 139-146.

Clark, A., Nash, R. A., Fincham, G., & Mazzoni, g. (2012). Creating non-believed memories for recent autobiographical events. Plos one 7(3).


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