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RESEARCH NETWORK.
Researcher list is not exhaustive and is updated as researcher information is submitted to the Hub.
Any researchers doing work on missing persons in Canada and the United States, please contact the Hub to have your information displayed below.
Researchers are listed alphabetically by last name.
Canada

Davut Akca
Research Interests:
1. Investigative interviewing
2. Missing persons
3. Program evaluation
4. Gangs
5. Radicalization
6. Hate crimes
1. Investigative interviewing
2. Missing persons
3. Program evaluation
4. Gangs
5. Radicalization
6. Hate crimes

Sayeh Bayat
Research Interests:
1. Dementia-friendly communities
2. Pervasive environments theory
3. Machine Learning
4. Outdoor Mobility
1. Dementia-friendly communities
2. Pervasive environments theory
3. Machine Learning
4. Outdoor Mobility

Justine Collin-Santerre
Research Interests:
1. Missing persons
2. Arsons & serial crimes
3. Wrongful convictions
4. Sexual offending
5. Crime prevention & investigations
1. Missing persons
2. Arsons & serial crimes
3. Wrongful convictions
4. Sexual offending
5. Crime prevention & investigations

Nicole Corrado
Research Interests:
1. Autism
2. Mental health
3. Missing persons
4. Media
5. Neuroaffirming services
1. Autism
2. Mental health
3. Missing persons
4. Media
5. Neuroaffirming services

Nadine Deslauriers-Varin
Research Interests:
1. Police investigations & investigative techniques
2. Investigative interviewing
3. Offender's decision-making
4. Crime event
5. Serial, sexual & violent crimes
1. Police investigations & investigative techniques
2. Investigative interviewing
3. Offender's decision-making
4. Crime event
5. Serial, sexual & violent crimes

Lorna Ferguson
Research Interests:
1. Police responses to missing persons
2. Search & rescue teams
3. Evidence-based policing
4. Policy studies
5. Qualitative research
1. Police responses to missing persons
2. Search & rescue teams
3. Evidence-based policing
4. Policy studies
5. Qualitative research

Laura Huey
Research Interests:
1. Policing
2. Victimization
3. Missing persons
4. Research
5. Evidence-based policy
1. Policing
2. Victimization
3. Missing persons
4. Research
5. Evidence-based policy

Sin Kim
Research Interests:
1. Missing persons
2. Police decision making and problem solving
3. Police leadership
4. Information sharing
5. Knowledge management and technology
1. Missing persons
2. Police decision making and problem solving
3. Police leadership
4. Information sharing
5. Knowledge management and technology

Larissa Kowalski
Research Interests:
1. Aging
2. Quality of life in old age
3. Living with dementia
4. Provisions of care
5. Older adult missing persons
1. Aging
2. Quality of life in old age
3. Living with dementia
4. Provisions of care
5. Older adult missing persons

Jacek Koziarski
Research Interests:
1. Crime Science
2. Evaluation
3. Mental Health
4. Policing
5. Spatial Criminology
1. Crime Science
2. Evaluation
3. Mental Health
4. Policing
5. Spatial Criminology

Lili Liu
Research Interests:
1. Dementia
2. Risks of going missing
3. Technology acceptance
4. Policy
5. Safety
1. Dementia
2. Risks of going missing
3. Technology acceptance
4. Policy
5. Safety

Serena Marotta
Research Interests:
1. Cold & historical missing persons
2. Investigative techniques & interviewing
3. Geographic profiling & crime mapping
4. Social / traditional media coverage crime and missing persons
5. Information sharing
1. Cold & historical missing persons
2. Investigative techniques & interviewing
3. Geographic profiling & crime mapping
4. Social / traditional media coverage crime and missing persons
5. Information sharing

Noelannah Neubauer
Research Interests:
1. Dementia
2. Way finding
3. Missing persons
4. Aging in place
5. Assistive technologies
1. Dementia
2. Way finding
3. Missing persons
4. Aging in place
5. Assistive technologies

Wendy Picknell
Research Interests:
1. Missing persons
2. Sex offending
3. Serial, sexual violent crimes
4. Evidence-based policing
5. Investigative techniques
1. Missing persons
2. Sex offending
3. Serial, sexual violent crimes
4. Evidence-based policing
5. Investigative techniques

Adam Sandford
Research Interests:
1. Face identification
2. Face memory
3. Cognitive representations of faces
1. Face identification
2. Face memory
3. Cognitive representations of faces

Alana Saulnier
Research Interests:
1. Policing
2. Procedural justice
3. Surveillance technologies
1. Policing
2. Procedural justice
3. Surveillance technologies
United States

James Michael Lampinen
Research Interests:
1. Prospective Person Memory
2. Forensic Age Progression
3. Missing Person Alert Systems
1. Prospective Person Memory
2. Forensic Age Progression
3. Missing Person Alert Systems

Kara N. Moore
Research Interests:
1. Prospective person memory
2. Person searches
3. Attention to missing persons searches
4. Memory in missing persons searches
5. Face recognition of missing persons
1. Prospective person memory
2. Person searches
3. Attention to missing persons searches
4. Memory in missing persons searches
5. Face recognition of missing persons

Stacey J Pearson
Research Interests:
1. AMBER Alert policy
2. Family abduction
3. Child abductions and kidnappings
4. Missing children
5. Exploited children
1. AMBER Alert policy
2. Family abduction
3. Child abductions and kidnappings
4. Missing children
5. Exploited children

Andrew Provenzano
Research Interests:
1. Missing Persons
2. Prospective Person Memory
3. Vigilance
4. Attention
1. Missing Persons
2. Prospective Person Memory
3. Vigilance
4. Attention
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