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prof. dr. Annelies Vredeveldt

Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology

Full Professor, A-LAB

Full Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies

Personal information

Annelies Vredeveldt is a Professor of Legal Psychology at the Department of Criminology at VU Amsterdam. She is co-founder and director of the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP). She leads a research team that investigates topics such as eyewitness memory and expert witness evidence, particularly in cross-cultural settings. Prof. Vredeveldt regularly appears as an expert witness in criminal cases and serves on advisory committees of the Netherlands Register of Court Experts and the Dutch National Police. She coordinates the Psychology course in the international Law in Society programme, and supervises students in Project Reasonable Doubt, in which potentially dubious criminal convictions are re-evaluated.

Website: www.annelies.vredeveldt.com

Research

Annelies Vredeveldt conducts research on eyewitness memory and investigative interviewing. She obtained an ERC Starting Grant for a five-year project on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts, leading a team of two postdocs, two PhD students and two research assistants to investigate this question in different contexts, from South African police interviews to Rwandan genocide cases to eyewitness experiments with asylum seekers.

Education

Annelies Vredeveldt coordinates the Psychology course in the Law and Society Bachelor. She teaches on basic concepts in psychology and applies them to the legal system, with interactive lectures and active tutorials in which the Mixed Classroom teaching method plays a crucial role.

Vredeveldt supervises Masters thesis projects on legal psychological topics. She also supervises teams of 8-12 students investigating selected criminal cases in the context of the Masters elective course Project Reasonable Doubt. Past investigations have contributed to the re-opening of closed cases.

Ancillary activities

Gerechtelijk deskundige | Nederland | Adviseur | 2014-01-01 - present
Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology | Amsterdam | Directeur | 2017-01-01 - present
Nederlands Register Gerechtelijk Deskundigen | Utrecht | Adviseur | 2017-04-25 - present
Studiecentrum Rechtspleging (SSR) | Utrecht | Gastdocent | 2023-11-01 - present

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