Gavin Oxburgh is a Professor of Police Science and an HCPC Registered Consultant Forensic Psychologist, a Chartered Psychologist and Chatered Scientist. He is also an Assistant Director of The Northern Hub for Veteran and Military Familes Research (with a focus on the Criminal Justice research agenda). Gavin is a 22 year veteran of His Majesty's Royal Air Force Police where he was a senior detective specialising in child protection and sexual offences. He is also a registered Expert Witness with the BPS providing advice in legal cases in the UK and overseas.
Gavin works in close collaboration with many police forces and law enforcement agencies around the world, providing consultancy and training on a wide variety of topics relating to legal psychology and human rights. He has previoulsy worked in close collaboration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and provided specialist advice and training to their Investigations Division. He is active in International Human Rights and sits on a UN-led International Steering Committee that developed The Mendez Principles on Effective Interviewing.
Gavin's research draws upon, and contributes to, the broad area of legal and criminological psychology including: International human rights, the prevention of torture, ethical and non-coercive interviewing; false and recovered memories, and military veterans' research. He has attracted over £5m in research grants to date from the ESRC, EPSRC, The British Academy, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Fund, The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, Forces in Mind Trust, The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), the UK College of Policing, and the N8 Policing Research Partnership.
Gavin has published widely in the area of legal and forensic psychology, policing,and communication. He is an Associate Editor for theJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling,and an Editorial Advisory Board member of the. He is an Associate Investigator status of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) which is EPSRC and GCHQ managed.
International Collaboration and Consultancy
In 2021, Gavin co-founded ETICA (Global), a not-for-profit organisation established to deliver capacity-building through training, professional advisory services, knowledge exchange, and innovation for ethical investigative practice across the globe. In 2007, he co-founded the (iIIRG) an organisation he Chaired until Jul 19.
He has trained investigators from many international organisations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Investigation Services, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the the Finnish and Swedish Competition Authorities in specialist interview techniques. He has previously provided specialist training to members of the South African Police Service () and South African Prosecution Services onnon-coercive interviewing in cases of child sexual abuse and on-line child exploitation. He wasa specialist advisor to the Credibility Assessment Research Summit (CARS), Washington DC, on Educing Information from suspects, a US Government research group sponsored by the Defence Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA).
He has previoulsy worked closely with the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) delivering training to investigators and prosecutors from Ukraine, and co-hosting a roundtable discussion at the UK's House of Lords on the draft (together with legal and procedural safeguards).He has been aninvited expert to the Great Britain-China Centre (London) and the Supreme People’s Court of China assisting on the process of conducting effective non-coercive interviewing.
Membership of Professional Bodies
Gavin is a member of the following professional bodies:
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