Dr Ross Bartels

My research focuses on using socio-cognitive measures and paradigms to examine processes underlying and associated with deviant sexual thoughts, fantasies, and cognitions.

Dr Georgina Gous

My main research examines how variations in voice can affect recognition and perceptions of the speaker, and how this can inform forensic practice (e.g., the errors that can arise in witness testimony when a person disguises their voice).

Professor Todd Hogue

My main research is related to sexual offenders including; measures of risk and clinical change; the impact of individual differences and personality disorder; measuring deviant sexual interest and arousal; and attitudes toward sexual offender and reintegration into society.

Dr Amanda Roberts

My current research examines the risk factors for antisocial behaviour, addiction, violence, pathological gambling, smoking and extensive pornography use.

Dr Hannah Merdian

My research interests are offenders who use child sexual exploitation material and their offence characteristics. I’m also interested in sexual deviancy and its assessment concerning criminal and non-criminal populations.

Dr Aidan Hart

My specialist areas of research and teaching include risk assessment, the assessment and treatment of offenders, mental health, Behavioural Theory, Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, Sexual Offenders, and Acceptance and Commitment therapy.

Dr Kyla Pennington

My research investigates cognitive processes associated with mental health disorders and what influences individual variability. I study the effects of genotypic variation on cognitive processes known to be affected in mental health disorders and the role of stress.

Michelle Smith

My areas of research interest include trauma and resilience in both offender populations and forensic staff, personality disordered offenders, and female offenders, .

Rachael Dagnall

My research interests include occupational stress among staff working in high-stress environments and how to increase resilience within such populations. I also research rehabilitative cultures within prison environments.

Dr Tochukwu Onwuegbusi

My research focuses mainly on developing implicit/eyetracking measures for forensic assessment (e.g., sexual interest), attitudes to sexual offenders (ATS), among others.

Dr Lauren Smith

I specialise in the journeys of people in, through, and out of the Criminal Justice System, with a particular emphasis on supporting transitions and supporting families of people with convictions.

Dr Mark Gresswell –

Interested in multiple sequential functional analysis of offender behaviours.

Dr Dave Dawson – 

Interested in the application of psychological theory to real-world behaviour and undertaken investigations in a number of areas of applied clinical and health research.

Dr Nima Moghaddam – 

Interested in the application of psychological theory to real-world behaviour and undertaken investigations in a number of areas of applied clinical and health research.

Dr Jenna Brough – 

am a part-time Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology. I am also a Principal Clinical Psychologist working in the NHS.

Dr Kamila Irvine – 

My research interests include body image, particularly perceptual body image, and body representation in the context of eating and body pathology, as well as the effects of victimisation on body perception.

Dr Phil Willmot – 

I am a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist in the Men’s Personality Disorder Service at Rampton Hospital. My specialist areas include personality disorder, violent and criminally diverse serious offenders, and schema therapy.

Charlotte Wesson – 

My research focuses on human sexuality, including deviant sexual interest, and the methods used to study this.

Investigating the psychological factors that cause and influence online gaming addiction.

Investigating the factors that mediate the link between sexual fantasising and sexual behaviour.

Investigating the nature and correlates of somnophilia and dormaphilia.

Investigating resilience in bullying victimisation.

My research focuses on burglary, investigating the potential aetiological factors, particularly cognitions, and social factors. In addition, I use virtual reality to allow for the simulation of burglary offences in an immersive environment.

Bronwyn is a visiting intern researcher from Maastricht University, Netherlands. She is working with Dr Ross Bartels on a project investigating the sexual fantasy content of men who committed either an online or contact sexual offence against a child(ren). The project also examines whether specific coded fantasy themes are associated with key dynamic risk factors.