Claire Taylor is a PhD researcher at Abertay University, Dundee. She graduated from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in July 2014 with a First Class Honours degree in Psychology. She then returned to the university to complete her Masters in Psychological Research Methods. Claire has previously worked in the healthcare sector and has extensive experience supporting vulnerable individuals. Claire can be emailed at: [email protected]
Dr Penny Woolnough is a Registered Forensic Psychologist and Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Abertay University in Dundee. Prior to joining Abertay University she spent 16 years working for the Police during which time she pioneered the development of a behavioural profiling approach to police-led missing person cases. A Fellow of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology she acts as an Expert Advisor to the UK National Crime Agency and to Police Scotland in relation to missing persons. Her research interests focus on the policing of vulnerable persons and she is currently engaged in projects relating to missing persons, suicide, and public protection. Penny can be emailed at: [email protected].
Professor Geoff Dickens has been a registered mental health nurse for 22 years. He originally worked in adolescent mental health services but since 1999 has worked mostly in forensic mental health services while developing his research interests in related areas. Geoff's current research focuses on the use of structured tools to predict and prevent aggression, and other adverse risk outcomes, in mental health services. He has authored more than sixty peer reviewed research papers on topics related to violence risk assessment, firesetting, borderline personality disorder, and medicines administration. He is the editor of three books (Firesetting and Mental Health, Psychology of arson, Handbook of Secure Care). He is currently supervising PhD's relating to ward violence climate, the use of structured anger measures as an adjunct to risk assessment, validity of structured risk tools in diverse populations, prisoners experiences of healthcare on liberation, and repeat missing people. He lives with his dog, Olaf (no, it wasn't named after the snowman from Frozen). Geoff can be emailed at: [email protected].