Eddie Kane, Ph.D., is director of the Centre for Health and Justice at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham.

He is currently delivering national and international research programmes including Interpol, London Violence Reduction Unit, College of Policing, Independent Office of Police Conduct and large grant funding programmes covering the development of evidence-based interventions at the health justice interface and policy review programmes in forensic services. He continues to advise government on aspects of home affairs and High Risk Offenders. He led the University of Nottingham team that developed the National Knowledge and Understanding Framework for personality disorders. Professor Kane was previously the Department of Health’s principal adviser on Personality Disorder (PD) services in which he led the development of the national PD strategy, including the Capabilities Framework workforce and training development plan. He was the National Director of High Security Psychiatric Services. He also worked as the director of NHS performance and mental health for London and as director of mental health for the Northwest and West Midlands regions of England. He has been an NHS Trust Chief Executive and held board-level positions in various public, private and voluntary organisations.