Dr Nkansah Anakwah

Lecturer in Forensic Psychology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: nkansah.anakwah@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Anakwah is a lecturer in forensic psychology with specialty in legal psychology. He completed a Dual Ph.D. in legal psychology at Maastricht University and University of Portsmouth, as part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme, The House of Legal Psychology. Nkansah supervised graduate students in legal psychology at Maastricht University. He was also a visiting lecturer at the Ghana Police Academy. Prior to his PhD, Nkansah worked at the University of Ghana, where he tutored psychology modules, and later worked as an adjunct lecturer at the Methodist University Ghana.

Nkansah’s research interests include eyewitness memory and investigative interviewing in cross-cultural contexts, including law enforcement settings, intelligence gathering settings, and asylum seeker contexts.

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Journal Publications

Hope, L., Kontogianni, F., Rechdan, J., Tavitian, L., Soubra, N. A., Brome., D. M. A. M., Gibson, V. & Anakwah., N. (2023). Exploring cultural differences in eyewitness accounts using a self-administered reporting technique. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316x.2023.2279330

Hope, L., Anakwah, N., Antfolk, J., Brubacher, S. P., Flowe, H., Gabbert, F., Giebals, E., Kanja, W., Korkman, J., Kyo, A., Naka, M., Otgaar, H., Powell, M. B., Selim, H., Skrifvars, J., Sorkpah, I. K., Sowatey, E. A., Steele, L. C., Stevens, L., ... Wells, S. (2021). Urgent issues and prospects at the intersection of culture, memory, and witness interviews: Exploring the challenge for research and practice. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 27 (1), 1 – 31. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12202

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L., Amankwah-Poku, M & Van Koppen, P. J. (2020). The acculturation effect and eyewitness memory reports. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25, 237 – 256. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12179

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L., Amankwah-Poku, M & Van Koppen, P. J. (2020). Cross-cultural differences in eyewitness memory reports. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30 (2), 505 – 515. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3637

Book chapters

Anakwah, N., Sumampuw, N., Otgaar, H. (2023). Cultural aspects of investigative interviewing. In G. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, M. Fallon, & M. Hartwig (Eds.), Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since World War II. TOAEP. https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/gajnp7/

Anakwah, N. (2022). Cross-cultural investigative interviews. In S. Landstrom, Granhag, P. A. & van Koppen, P. J. (Eds). The Future of Forensic Psychology: Core Topics and Emerging Trends. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003308546-7

Anakwah, N. (2020). Cross-cultural differences: Implications for legal psychology. In R. Horselenberg, V. van Koppen, & J. de Keijser (Eds.), Bakens in de Rechtspsychologie [Beacons in Legal Psychology]: Liber Amicorum Peter van Koppen (pp. 375 – 386). Boomuitgevers.

Conference presentations

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L. & Van Koppen, P. J (2023, August). The effect of authority on eyewitness memory reports. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Nagoya, Japan.

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L. & Van Koppen, P. J (2021, August). Cultural differences in eyewitness memory reports. Paper presented at the virtual European Association Psychology of Psychology and Law conference.

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L., Amankwah-Poku, M & Van Koppen, P. J. (2020, November). Culture matters for eyewitness memory reports. Poster paper presented at the virtual Culture and Cognition preconference of the Psychonomic Society.

Anakwah, N. (2020, May). Eyewitness memory reports across cultures. Paper presented at the Zoom-Psychology and Law Symposium

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L. & van Koppen, P (2019, July). The acculturation effect and eyewitness testimony among sub-Sahara African migrants. Paper presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L. & van Koppen, P. J (2019, June). Where I come from and what I report: Cultural influences on eyewitness memory. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

Anakwah, N., Horselenberg, R., Hope, L. & van Koppen, P (2018, June). Cultural influences on eyewitness testimony. Poster session presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law conference, Turku, Finland