Profile
Dominic Willmott, Ph.D., is a chartered psychologist. He is interested in bias within legal decision-making. His main specialism is jury decision-making within sexual offence trials alongside investigating the impact of rape myths and broader social cognitions in gender-based violence.
He is a Visiting Professor at SWPS University and a Reader (Associate Professor) in Legal and Criminological Psychology at Loughborough University in the UK – a top 10 ranked UK university, currently ranked number one in the UK for Criminology.
He has published more than 70 scientific articles and research outputs and received almost £5 million pounds in funding to carry out his research. He was recently awarded a Scientific Impact Award by the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) for contributions made to the scientific study of bias in the courtroom.
Dom is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Psychology and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology (Forensic and Legal Psychology Section). He also serves on the Editorial Board of a number of other international publications including the Journal of Criminal Justice, The Police Journal, and Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement.
Dom is Chair of the Board of Trustee’s for Justice is Now, a registered charity aiming to improve outcomes for victim-survivors of sexual violence in the UK and previously served as Academic Advisor to Dame Vera Baird, the Victim Commissioner for England and Wales, from July 2020 until her term of office came to a close in 2022.
At SWPS University he teaches Legal Psychology.