Neil is a Regional Lead Psychologist within HMPPS and a Lecturer on the MSc Forensic Psychology and Mental Health at the University of Manchester.  In addition, he is a Registrar and Chief Supervisor for the BPS Qualification in Forensic Psychology. 

Neil's clinical experience has been in secure services including High, Medium and Low Secure Mental Health settings with male and female clients, including adults and young people.  His current role is working in Prisons. 

Neil's areas of specialist interest are offending behaviour assessment and interventions, psychological formulation, organisational culture, consultancy and training in forensic settings, qualitative research, rehabilitative culture, and staff-prisoner relationships.

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Geraldine is a Chartered and HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has worked for the prison service since 1999 assessing risk and providing treatment to men convicted of violent and sexual offences and with complex needs and she currently works as the Therapy Manager on the Enhanced Assessment Unit at HMP Grendon. She has been a Trustee for the Safer Living Foundation since July 2017.

Geraldine was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham in 2015. She was appointed an Honorary Professor at Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2018 and is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Cardiff Metropolitan University. 

Geraldine was presented with the Senior Practitioner Award by the Division of Forensic Psychology 2018 for distinguished contribution to Forensic Psychology.

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Rachael has been a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist since 2004, with 20 years’ experience working with a variety of forensic client groups residing in and out of custody. 

Rachael is currently employed by HMPPS and located in the Midlands. 

Rachael's areas of specialist interest are risk assessment, developing and delivering interventions for individual who commit stalking offences, providing risk management advice and consultancy regarding stalking offences.

Adrian is a Senior Lecturer, the Co-Director of the MSc in Forensic Psychology and a member of the Forensic Psychology Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. Adrian is also external examiner for the PGCert/PGDip/MSc in Forensic Psychology at Birmingham City University. 

Prior to his appointment at Goldsmiths, Adrian worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, where he was the Associate Director of the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Social Change. Adrian is a Chartered Psychologist with Associate Fellow Status within the British Psychological Society. 

Adrian's areas of specialist interest are Forensic and Criminological Psychology, specialising in the areas of intimate aggression (including stalking, technologically facilitated sexual violence and image based sexual abuse), investigative interviewing and eyewitness testimony.

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Since completing her undergraduate degree Michelle has worked in forensic mental health. She undertook her MSc in Criminological Psychology at Birmingham University. 

Michelle's supervised practice, leading to qualification as a Forensic Psychologist, was completed in an independent low secure psychiatric hospital.  Michelle also held a qualified post in an independent sector medium secure before moving to a post in an NHS high secure psychiatric hospital. She has worked in the NHS as a Forensic Psychologist for more than 10 years. 

Michelle's areas of specialist interest are in the field of forensic mental health, in particular within the area of personality disorder. She is the treatment lead for DBT within her current post and is a certified individual schema therapist.

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Polly's current role is Programme Director of the MSc Forensic Psychology and Mental Health at the University of Manchester (UoM). She maintains clinical practice one day per week conducting psychological assessments for court and specialist interventions in the community / HMPPS (e.g. EMDR, HSP). 

Polly's clinical background and training was within forensic mental health settings, working in low and high secure psychiatric hospitals before moving to my academic role.

In addition to the DFP committee, she is also a member of the DFP training committee.

Polly's areas of specialist interest are application of positive psychology to forensic settings, wellbeing in clients and colleagues, personality disorder – assessment and interventions, trauma and EMDR, offending behaviour assessment and interventions, psychological formulation, investigative approaches / police work.

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This position is currently vacant.

Sally is currently employed by HMPPS and located in the Midlands region. 

She has been a Chartered and Forensic Psychologist since 2001 and have over 21 years of experience working in forensic settings. Work settings include prisons, developing programmes for juveniles and adults, and training forensic practitioners in the UK and USA.  

Sally's areas of specialist interest are rehabilitative custodial environments, fire-setting and forensic risk assessment. 

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Martin has been a Regional Lead Psychologist for HMPPS since 1999 and has worked in HMPS since 1988 across all population types as well as in HQ roles. He is the Research Lead Psychologist for HMPPS Psychology. 

Martin is currently on the BPS Ethics Committee and an Assessor for the Qualification in Forensic Psychology. In addition, for the Psychological Testing Committee he is Vice Chair for the Committee on Testing Standards, a Forensic Testing Verifier and also a member of the Diploma in Psychometric Testing Working Party.

Martin is Honorary Consultant and Forensic Psychologist within Southern Health Foundation Trust and a Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Portsmouth University. Further he is Co-Chair of Prospect Trade Union representing Psychology and affiliated specialists employed by HMPPS.

Martin's areas of specialist interest are practitioner ethics and boundary management, psychometric testing, research design, violent and sexual offenders, transgender offenders, consulting in forensic practice; applying forensic practice in clinical settings.

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Emily is a Forensic Psychologist in Training at HMP Grendon on one of the main Therapeutic Community (TC) wings.  Emily graduated from the University of Exeter in 2012 with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and went on to complete a Masters in Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in 2013.

Emily has worked in the prison service for 6 years and is currently working to implement a Trauma Management group on the TC at HMP Grendon and has a specific interest in the ‘strengths based approach’.

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