Kathryn has managed two innovation grants provided by Her Majesty’s prison and Probation service, working across the North West with NAS to improve prison and probation practice in relation to autism and learning disabilities, working across the North West with NAS to improve prison and probation practice in relation to autism and learning disabilities.

Kathryn also Chairs the Greater Manchester Learning Disability and Autism Criminal Justice Implementation group, working with autistic people and people with learning disabilities with experience of criminal justice and criminal justice partners to deliver against the GM autism and learning disability strategies. Kathryn is passionate about improving our approach across the whole of the criminal justice system to prevent victims and reduce reoffending and was honoured to receive a Butler Trust commendation for her work. 

Verity has supported autism assessments within a forensic intellectual disability setting for a number of years. In 2019, Verity became Gender and Diversity editor of the Advances in Autism journal, and edited two special issues focused on autistic females. Verity has over 60 publications in the area of forensic developmental disability, including a project on early intervention for offending behaviour, a literature review on the recognition and diagnosis of autism in women and girls, and a book chapter on the needs of autistic females within the criminal justice system. 

Verity is a Research Associate and the Network Manager for RADiANT (http://radiant.nhs.uk/), a clinical and research consortium focuses on mental health and behavioural issues associated with five developmental conditions; Intellectual Disability, Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Epilepsy and Acquired Brain Injury.

Colin has been active in the field of restraint reduction for over 20 years and has worked as an adviser on this area to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Justice. He has led several research programmes and reviews on restraint issues. He is the joint Vice Chairman of the Restraint Reduction network.

Colin has acted as adviser to the National Patient Safety Agency on mental health, and since then he has led and reviewed a series of independent investigations into Serious Untoward Investigations throughout the UK. In 2013 his Company (Caring Solutions) was appointed by NHS England to the national framework to conduct independent investigations in the NHS.

Colin completed his Doctoral studies (PhD) in 2002 and was the lead editor of four forensic care textbooks in the years that followed. He has presented papers to international, national and regional conferences and written extensively for professional publication.

In that her work seeks to understand how and why disabled people are at times targeted and subjected to violence and dehumanising treatment. This work extends to disabled people who have offended.

In her recent ESRC funded project on people with learning disabilities who have sexually offended it has become apparent that the majority of these individuals have themselves been severely traumatised in earlier life, long before they started hurting others. Andrea’s aspiration is to enable a deeper understanding of the needs of those who have been hurt and those who hurt others, to inform service responses that can help to break the circle of offending.

In 2014, Clare began working with HMYOI Feltham to develop Autism Accreditation standards for prisons. Since then, she has worked with colleagues to develop Autism Accreditation standards for probation services and the police. She has co-authored a number of journal articles and blogs on autism and the criminal justice system and has contributed to a number of resources for professionals working in the CJS. 

Findings from her evaluation 'Impact of LD/ASC specific training for North West National Probation Service (NPS) staff' was presented at the 2019 Offenders with an Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability conference.

Dr Murphy is also an active researcher examining various aspects of autism in forensic settings with a number of publications in international peer reviewed journals, as well as acting as an expert witness for a number of high-profile criminal cases, including within crown courts and at the court of appeal.

Dr Sarrett highlights the ways disability works alongside other social identities to create unique experiences within the carceral system. She is the sole or co-author of over 20 academic articles and over 10 op-eds on topics ranging from disability and criminal justice to pre-diagnostic technologies for autism to the way culture influences how autism in considered and understood.

She moved to Australia in 2010 and worked at Griffith University in the Department of Arts, Education and Law. Her research focuses on people with ASD who come in contact with the criminal justice system to ensure their humane and just treatment. She has served as a Special Interest Group Chairwoman at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) providing mentoring and leadership in the field of criminality and ASD. She has provided training to secure forensic psychiatric facility staff in England and presented at the International Conference for Offenders with Disabilities.

She has published numerous articles and book chapters and was an expert panellist at the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law conference where she spoke on Risk Assessment, Management and ASD. She has completed ADOS evaluations in prisons, has testified as an expert witness in sentencing hearings, has written amicus curiae briefs and participated in cases that have been considered before state supreme courts.

He served as speaker and researcher at the University of Denver's Human Trafficking Center and is currently a board member at the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, leading its policy committee. He is also an independent researcher focused on transnational organized crime in diaspora communities, terrorist propaganda, and violent social movements.

His research has been published in Small Wars Journal, The Global Network on Extremism and Technology, The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (The Hague), and The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Israel), the African Jihad, and the Institute for Security Studies (Africa). He holds an M.A. in International Security from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver with a Middle Eastern and North African Religious and Political Thought specialization. He also holds a B.A. in History from Rhodes College.