Research Fellow - TILES
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences |
| Room Reference | 502 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2320 |
| Sally.Kelty@utas.edu.au |
Dr Sally Kelty has a PhD in Legal Studies and Psychology and a Bachelor of Commerce in Management from Murdoch University. She has worked in research, Human Resources in private industry and in clinical settings. Her clinical work includes community mental health, public and private intellectual disability sector and Department of Corrective Services in Western Australia. Her industry research work includes: development of prison based rehabilitation programs domestic violence, substance use and generalist offending programs for men and women; independent community living programs; and development of psychological test batteries. Sally has worked on several health related projects including the management of a three-year longitudinal study exploring the experiences and outcomes for 160 high-risk teenage mothers and their children, and also headed up the adolescent program within a health promotion development grant for safer and healthier urban design planning for adolescents aimed at reducing delinquency and obesity.
She joined TILES in July 2009 as a Research Fellow working primarily on an ARC linkage project investigating the effectiveness of forensic evidence in criminal investigations and court outcomes. In this project sally works with several police jurisdictions. She has completed several projects including the seminal work on identifying the 7-key attributes of Australia’s top-performing crime scene examiners. Sally currently works with the Australian Federal Police to develop a recruitment and career pathway for field forensic scientists based upon the results from the 7 key attributes research.
She is the Chief Investigator on a NIFS-funded project on ‘The Interfaces between Science, Medicine and Law Enforcement’ which explored inter-agency communication and working relationships between four professions/professional groups (law enforcement / forensic medicine / forensic Science / law). The project final report (To be completed end of 2012) will detail the different forms of inter-agency steering groups and working groups currently operating across Australia and how and why they meet. The report will also detail the pitfalls and benefits of justice agencies developing working relationships and will outline the key-attributes that need to be in place for working groups to be effective.
Sally co-supervisors five PhD students whose focus is on ‘Lawyers and DNA: Understanding and Challenging the Evidence’; ‘Measuring the Impact of Forensic Science on Police Investigations and Court Trials’; ‘Communicating scientific expert opinion’; and ‘predicting recidivism risk in an Australian population of adult offenders’, and ‘Analysing Fatal Interactions between the community and the Police’.
Criminal Investigations and Forensic Opinion/Evidence
Effective Interagency Communication and Collaboration
Recruitment and selection of employees
Leadership Program Development
Violent Behaviour assessment and measurement
Offender Risk Assessment and Rehabilitation
Program Development and Evaluation
General interest in forensic psychology and organisational criminology and psychology