Division 10: Board Members

President: Anthony Cole (Australia)

Anthony Cole is a specialist in Forensic and Forensic Clinical Psychology and has many years of experience working in both Civil and Criminal Forensic areas of practice providing expert opinions and consultation ranging from Local Courts and Tribunals to Federal and Supreme Courts. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (FAPS) and also a Fellow of both the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Forensic Psychologists (FCFP) and the College of Clinical Psychologists (FCCLP). Within the APS, he has been a member of the National Council (now the Board of Directors), Chairperson of the College of Forensic Psychologists for two full three-year terms, Secretary of the National Committee of the Division of Professional Affairs, a member of the National Committee of the Division of Scientific Affairs and of the APS Education and Training Committee. He has also been both a Forensic Associate Editor and a Forensic Special Topic Editor for the ‘Australian Psychologist’, the official applied practice and public policy journal of the Australian Psychological Society.

President-Elect: Kerry Fisher (United Kingdom)

Kerry Fisher is a PhD researcher in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, examining how men with lived experience of Borderline Personality Disorder are misdiagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, and how this misdiagnosis shapes their pathways into and through the Criminal Justice System. She is President Elect of IAAP Division 10 and Vice President of IAAP Division 15 (Students & Early Career Psychologists), supporting global collaboration and student engagement. Within the British Psychological Society, Kerry previously served on the Student Committee as the EFPSA representative and on the West Midlands Regional Committee, advocating for postgraduate and early career psychologists. More recently, she has been appointed to the Male Psychology Section Committee with the BPS. Her work centres on forensic psychological practice, bringing together research and ethics to strengthen justice aligned practice. 

Colin Tredoux (South Africa)

Colin Tredoux is a research psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research focuses particularly on eyewitness identification, face recognition, memory, and intergroup biases in legal settings. He teaches psychology and law, cognitive neuropsychology, and statistical methods. His work aims to apply rigorous psychological research and quantitative methods to improve the evaluation of identification evidence and legal decision-making. Colin is a former president of Division 10 of the IAAP.

Alfred Allan (Australia)

Emeritus Professor Alfred Allan is a lawyer-psychologist specialising in mental health law, professional ethics and psychology in law. The Psychologists Board of Australia (Board) endorsed him as both a clinical and forensic psychologist and was a member of the inaugural Board from 2009 until 2018. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Applied Psychology and is the former chair of the Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics. He was previously chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) Ethics Committee and the committees that reviewed the APS Code of Ethics and was a member of the Board’s Code Expert Advisory Group. He works as a legal-ethical consultant, expert witness and researcher and research supervisor at Edith Cowan University (ECU) and the University of Western Australia. He is a member of the Perth Emotion and Psychopathology Lab and affiliate member of Mental Health Research Group of ECU’s Centre for Precision Health.