Postgraduate supervision

I supervise doctoral research in forensic and investigative psychology, using qualitative and/or quantitative methods.

Examples of some PhD projects are listed below:

• Peer-on-peer harmful sexual behaviour: understanding risk and behaviour to prevent harm
• Organised crime homicide: understanding threat to inform prevention and intervention
• Online behaviour and risk of sexual harm associated with online gaming
• Risk factors, emotions and decision-making regarding child criminal exploitation 
• Knife crime: understanding drivers and predicting level of risk
• Transnational child sex offending: understanding threat to disrupt and target
• Child grooming: predicting level of risk to prioritise offenders
• The relationship between trauma and aggression and the role of protective factors
• Boundary violations between staff and clients in healthcare and forensic settings
• Juvenile homicide offenders: exploration of the crime-scene, offender and victim characteristics
• Staff burnout in medium secure forensic settings