Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman, Director of the Psychology Department and Director of Center for Public Policy Research is at the University of California Davis. She is widely known as the pioneer of modern-day scientific research of children's memory as eyewitnesses as well as the role of children victimization in court. Professor Goodman is the author of numerous research publications as well as numerous awards to her credit she is also the winner of numerous international and national prizes. She has worked with a variety of organisations and governments around the globe on policy and research relating to children who have been victims of the legal system. She is a consultant at the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center and was previously The Multidisciplinary Interview Center of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is a part of numerous professional organizations that include Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. Prof. Goodman is a fellow of the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and also the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has been president of the American Psychological Association's Developmental Psychology Division as well as three divisions of the Child and Family Practice and Policy Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Developmental Psychology.