Michael E. Lamb, PhD

Michael E. Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976 and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Goteborg (1995), East Anglia (2006), Abertay (2015), and Montreal (2019). Until 29 June 2016, he was a member of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry Panel. He is the author or editor of about 50 books, including Investigative interviews of children (1998), Child sexual abuse: Disclosure, delay, and denial (2007), Tell me what happened: Structured investigative interviews of child victims and witnesses (2008 and 2018), Children’s testimony (2011), and Children and cross-examination: Time to change the rules? (2012). Together with his colleagues, Michael worked extensively to develop and validate the NICHD Protocol in a series of studies that began in 1990. He currently edits the journal, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.