Personal Statement
I am the Research Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme and I conduct research at the intersection of clinical and forensic psychology. Topics that I work on include violent and sexual offending, personality disorder, emotion, and social cognition.

Our work on the cognitive and affective mechanisms underlying aggressive and antisocial behaviours, including sexual offending, has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. I have active collaborations with the Ministry of Justice, His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, and G-Map Services in Manchester, who provide therapeutic services to children who show harmful sexual behaviours.

Before joining the University of Liverpool, I worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, and later as a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Newcastle University. I have also worked as a Research Psychologist for the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a UK based charitable organisation dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse.

I would be pleased to hear from potential PhD students interested in research in the following areas:
-Psychopathic personality traits in forensic and non-forensic populations
-Sexual interests and sexual offending
-Clinical science and psychopathology

Research Overview
My research interests are at the intersection of clinical and forensic psychology and psychiatry. Our work examines social-cognitive and affective processes and their association with various forms of psychopathology, aggressive and antisocial behaviour, including sexual offending, and personality disorder. We use a variety of research methods to answer questions in these areas, including experimental and survey methods, use of eye-tracking to measure eye-movements and gaze location, and measures of autonomic reactivity (e.g., pupil dilation).