Georgina Heydon

Professor Georgina Heydon is an expert in criminology and justice studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her research analyses the language of police interviewing and other forms of evidential language in the justice system in Australia, in Mozambique (with Dr Eliseu Mabasso) and in Indonesia (with Dr R. Dian Muniroh). Professor Heydon is a past President of the International Association of Forensic and Legal Linguistics; and, as a forensic linguist, she provides expert evidence on authorship identification and commercial trademark cases. Her current research focuses on the reporting of sexual assault. She is also working with Aboriginal community organisations towards developing a methodology for research field interviews that combines cognitive interviewing and traditional yarning methods.