Margaret-Ellen Pipe

Margaret-Ellen (Mel) Pipe is a developmental psychologist known for her research on memory development and its application to legal contexts involving eye-witness testimony of children in cases of child abuse. She holds the position of Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.[1]

Margaret-Ellen Pipe
OccupationProfessor of Psychology
Awards
  • Honorary Doctorate, Stockholm University
  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Outstanding Research Career Achievement Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Academic work
InstitutionsCollege of Staten Island, CUNY

Pipe received the Mark Chaffin Outstanding Research Career Achievement Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children in 2014[2] and an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University in 2015.[3]

Pipe is the co-editor (with Michael E. Lamb, Yael Orbach, and Ann-Christin Cederborg) of Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial.[4]

Biography

Pipe grew up in New Zealand and graduated from Waihi College.[3] She received a B.A. degree in English at the University of Auckland, and continued on to complete a PhD in Psychology in 1982. Her dissertation, titled "Hemispheric specialization for speech perception in retarded children"[5] used dichotic listening to examine the right-ear advantage for processing speech in children with Down's syndrome or intellectual disability.[6]

Pipe completed post-doctoral work in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington before becoming a Senior Research Fellow and Staff Scientist at the University of Otago (1985-2001), where she worked with Harlene Hayne.[7] Pipe was a professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College, CUNY, prior to moving to the College of Staten Island in 2016.

Pipe and her colleagues have engaged in research on children's memory and testimony about witnessed events.[8] Her team aimed to find out if specific techniques and object cues[9] might help children produce more accurate descriptions of situations or events they may have experienced or witnessed. Supported by funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Justice,[10] Pipe worked as part of team that developed and evaluated a forensic interview protocol for interviewing children suspected of having witnessed or been a victim of child abuse.[11]Their protocol used conversational methods to build rapport between the child and the interviewer and relied on open-ended questions as opposed to suggestive leading questions to elicit the child's recall of target events.

References
  1. "Meet the Associate Provost".
  2. "Past Award Winners". apsac. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  3. "Love takes psychologist from Waihi to New York". Stuff. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  4. Child sexual abuse : disclosure, delay, and denial. Pipe, M-E (Margaret-Ellen). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8058-5284-4. OCLC 124067805.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. Pipe, Margaret-Ellen (1982). Hemispheric specialization for speech perception in retarded children (Thesis thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.
  6. Pipe, Margaret-Ellen (1983). "Dichotic-Listening Performance Following Auditory Discrimination Training in Down's Syndrome and Developmentally Retarded Children". Cortex. 19 (4): 481–491. doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(83)80030-6.
  7. "Pictures Help In Child Abuse Cases". www.scoop.co.nz. 18 September 1999. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  8. Pipe, Margaret-Ellen; Lamb, Michael E.; Orbach, Yael; Esplin, Phillip W. (2004). "Recent research on children's testimony about experienced and witnessed events". Developmental Review. 24 (4): 440–468. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2004.08.006.
  9. Gee, Susan; Pipe, Margaret-Ellen (1995). "Helping children to remember: The influence of object cues on children's accounts of a real event". Developmental Psychology. 31 (5): 746–758. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.31.5.746. ISSN 1939-0599.
  10. "Toward a Better Way to Interview Child Victims of Sexual Abuse". National Institute of Justice. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  11. "Do Best Practice Interviews with Child Abuse Victims Influence Case Processing?" (PDF). www.ncjrs.gov. 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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