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Tiffany Carpenter
- Tiffany Carpenter
Tiffany Carpenter
Availability
Tiff is available via teleconference each Monday from 10am until 4pm during semester.
Training areas
Tiff provides support from her own experience with:
- Humanities research designs
- Mixed methods
- Survey designs (Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey)
Tiff also offers support in the following areas:
- Confirmation of Candidature requirements
- GRIP
- Epigeum Integrity Program
- Riskware Health and Safety Risk Assessments
- REMS and Ethics applications
- Turnitin
- Learning Plans
- General IT troubleshooting
- Referencing – APA 7th, AGLC4 (Endnote and Mendeley)
- Thesis formatting (Microsoft Word)
- Participant recruitment strategies
- Literature reviews
- Proposal presentations/seminars
- Basic SPSS data analyses
Research area
Tiff is a PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Humanities in the field of Criminology and Psychology. Her doctoral research focuses on examining the relationship between personal values and juror decision-making. A trial by jury is a fundamental right afforded to all Australians. The criminal justice system relies on the jury to review evidence presented at trial and decide on matters of fact. However, research indicates that jurors are often biased by elements other than evidence during their decision-making process. Factors such as legal system trust, legal authoritarianism, defendant attractiveness and socio-economic status, race and racial bias, gender, and juror need for cognition have been identified as extra-legal factors known to affect the decision-making process. While some interventions have been implemented to reduce the effects of these biases, none have been particularly successful. Personal values are abstract ideals that provide guiding principles in one’s life, occupying a central space in the cognitive network of the development of attitudes and subsequent behaviours, and also serve as a standard by which people judge both their and others’ actions. Tiff’s research proposes to establish the relationship between personal values and juror verdict decisions and seeks to identify if targeting interventions towards these values rather than attitudes may be a more effective measure in reducing bias and ensuring an equitable trial process.
Background
Tiff is a domestic student originally from Brisbane, Qld. She has completed a Bachelor of Counterterrorism, Security and Intelligence and a Bachelor of Criminology and Justice (Honours) at Edith Cowan University. Her honours thesis, Parenting responsibility as a mitigating factor in sentencing, explored the influence of gender and type of care given on mock sentencing decisions and public attitudes towards whether the hardship faced by an offender’s dependent children is considered a justified mitigating factor in sentencing. She also works as a research assistant with the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Social Change. Tiff is part of the ECU ALLY Network.