Patient and carer respresentatives

Ian Callaghan

Ian Callaghan is currently a Lived Experience Programme Manager with the national mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness where he facilitates short- and long-term involvement and co-production projects for a variety of external commissioners. Ian brings his own lived experience of severe mental illness to his work, as well as experience of being a patient in an adult secure service.

Sheena Foster

Sheena Foster is a carer with 18 years of experience of secure services. She was influential in the development of the Secure Carer’s Toolkit and involved with NHSE in their transformational work. She currently works with the RCPsych on the Forensic Faculty, Quality Forensic Network and believes that carers need a louder voice in secure services if they are to change.

Sarah Markham

Sarah Markham has many years in-depth experience of multi-service and secure and forensic mental health services. She is a University of Cambridge graduate and has a PhD in an area of Pure Mathematics. She has reviewed forensic mental health services for the QNFMHS at the RCPsych and was the Patient Reviewer for the NHSE commissioned Independent Review of the Edenfield Centre and GMMH in 2023. Her lived experience has taught her of the intense need for research into forensic psychiatry and secure and forensic mental health care. She is thrilled to be supporting this JLA PSP.

Paula Harriott

Donna Gipson

Emachi Eneje

Clinincal representatives

Howard Ryland

University of Oxford / Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. PSP Co-Lead

Howard Ryland is a forensic psychiatrist and researcher with a particular interest in research prioritisation and collaborative approaches to research. His research interests include outcome measurement, risk assessment, and patient and public involvement, with a focus on forensic mental health services.

Daniel Whiting

University of Nottingham / Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. PSP Co-Lead

Daniel Whiting is a clinical academic forensic psychiatrist who co-chairs the Forensic Research Nottingham group. His research interests include improving approaches to risk assessment and intervention, including collaborative approaches, prediction models and their clinical translation as support tools.

Pamela Taylor

Cardiff University

Pamela Taylor CBE; FRCPsych; FMedSci, is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Cardiff University. Peer reviewed publications: relationships between violence and psychosis, mental state among prisoners and other related topics. Past Chair: Forensic Psychiatry Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; current Faculty and public policy roles for the RCPsych; Co-Editor of the textbook Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical Legal and Ethical Issues, 2nd Edn 2014; Editor-in-Chief Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health; Co-chair of the research charity Crime in Mind; Howard League for Penal Reform Council member.

Seena Fazel

University of Oxford / Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Seena Fazel is a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford. His main research interests are risk assessment in criminal justice and mental health, and the prevention of suicide, violence and other adverse outcomes in people with mental illness. He holds honorary appointments at Oxford Health Foundation NHS Trust, where he works clinically as a prison psychiatrist. Seena is an expert member of the UK government’s Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.

Lindsay Thomson

University of Edinburgh

Lindsay is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh; and Director of the Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network and the School of Forensic Mental Health. She has been Medical Director of the State Hospitals Board for Scotland since 2007. Lindsay’s research interests include recovery and outcomes in mentally disordered offenders, risk, the impact of legislative change, and interventions and service design. Research findings are implemented through the Forensic Network.

She has a particular interest in teaching and established the School of Forensic Mental Health. The School won the Scottish Public Service Award for Employee Engagement and Skills in 2014. Lindsay was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 at the NHS Education Scotland Medical Directorate Awards. She co-authored the first textbook on psychiatry and the Scottish legal system and legislation: Mental Health and Scots Law in Practice which is now in its second edition.

Mayura Deshpande

NHSE Clinical Reference Group / Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Mayura Deshpande is a consultant in forensic psychiatry and the National Specialty Advisor in secure care to NHS England. She chairs the Adult Secure Clinical Reference Group and works with clinicians and commissioners to advise NHS England on low, medium and high secure forensic services, community forensic services, and the interface between forensic mental health services and prisons, adult mental health services and the criminal justice system. She works clinically in a specialist community forensic service in Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is the Caldicott Guardian for the Trust. Her research interests include patient safety and mental health homicide investigation methodology. She has a longstanding interest in ethics and law, has chaired the RCPsych Professional Practice & Ethics Committee and is the College’s Associate Registrar for Policy and its lead for the Invited Review Service.

Douglas MacInnes

Canterbury Christ Church University

Doug is Professor of Mental Health at Canterbury Christ Church University and Visiting Professor at Kent and Medway Medical School. Doug is a mental health nurse and extensive experience of working in forensic mental health services. He maintains close links with services in London and the South of England. Doug has also been involved in a numerous forensic research projects working collaboratively, with service users, carers, clinicians and managers.

Simon Hackett

Newcastle University / Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Simon Scott Hackett is a clinical-academic Allied Health Professional (AHP), Consultant Art Psychotherapist working in Secure Care for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Applied Mental Health Research at Newcastle University. Simon is programme lead for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Mental Health Implementation Network, a national priority area consortium.

Steven Gillespie

Psychologist, University of Liverpool

Steven Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Director of Research for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at the University of Liverpool. He conducts experimental research in clinical and forensic psychology on topics including psychopathology, emotion and social cognition, and sexual and violent offending.

Richard Keers

University of Manchester

Richard Keers is an academic mental health pharmacist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (UoM) with expertise in medication safety and health services research across care settings, with a particular interest in mental health care and prison health care. He leads the Optimising Outcomes with Medicines (OptiMed) research unit across Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and UoM, and is Academic Career Development Lead with the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration.

David Cochrane

David Cochrane MBE is a retired Head of Forensic Social Work at West London NHS Trust and now works as a Forensic Social Work Consultant. He is a Specialist Member of the Mental Health Tribunal and serves on the Accreditation Committee of the Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services.

Jonathan Bickford

West London NHS Trust

Jonathan Bickford is a GP whose clinical work includes addressing the physical health of patients under the care of mental health teams, in particular focussing on measures that prevent premature ill health and mortality relating to cardiovascular disease, diabetes care, cancer screening programmes and supporting equitable access to digital care systems.

Eddie Kane

University of Nottingham / Institute of Mental Health

Eddie Kane is Director of Centre for Health and Justice at the Institute of Mental Health, partnership between the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in criminology. He is a former NHS Trust CEO, government policy adviser, national director of high security psychiatric services and was director of mental health for London and North West England.

Catriona Connell

University of Stirling

Catriona is a Senior Research Fellow at the Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research at the University of Stirling, and a registered occupational therapist. Her research area is 'justice health', focusing on improving the health and social circumstances of people in the justice system. Find more information about her and her work here.

Suzannah Kinsella

James Lind Alliance

Suzannah Kinsella is the James Lind Alliance Adviser for this Adult Secure Inpatient and Community Forensic Mental Health Services Priority Setting Partnership. Her role is to the chair the steering group meetings and provide guidance on the priority setting process. Suzannah is a social researcher by background, specialising in public dialogue. She joined the JLA as an adviser in April 2019. Other PSPs she is currently advising include sickle cell & genomics, thoracic surgery and gender dysphoria & incongruence. Previous PSPs have included stroke, community nursing, burn injury and childhood neurological conditions.