Dr Monica Lloyd (BA, MSc, Phd, C.Psychol, AFBPS)
Monica is a registered forensic and practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. Monica has worked as a forensic psychologist for over 25 years in prisons, for HM Inspectorate of Prisons and in the headquarters of His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). Before leaving she worked in a specialist team in HMPPS to develop psychologically-informed assessments for those convicted of terrorist offences or about whom there were concerns about their terrorism risk. These included the Extremism Risk Guidance (ERG 22+) and Extremism Risk Screen (ERS).
Since leaving HMPPS Monica has adapted these products for the Home Office Channel programme and for local projects working to counter extremism in the community. She continues to offer consultancy nationally and internationally. She continues to contribute to international conferences that concern violent extremism and to complete expert assessments for the legal teams of those charged with or convicted of terrorism related offences.
Monica is now a senior lecturer at the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham and co-Investigator for the ESRC funded Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) project ‘Actors and Narratives’ strand. She played a key in establishing the first four year Doctoral programme that confers full qualification in both forensic and clinical psychology, and now acts as training coordinator for this course.
DR CARYS KEANE (DForPsych C.PSYCHOL, AFBPS)
Carys is a registered forensic and practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
For nearly 20 years Carys has worked in law enforcement, security and criminal justice settings. From 2013 to 2022, she was a national specialist lead in His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) with responsibility for revising and improving assessments and interventions to prevent terrorism in custodial and community settings, notably the Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) and Extremism Risk Guidance (ERG22+). This role included providing training and clinical support to professionals across the Ministry of Justice, contributing to policy and strategy development, providing consultancy to other government agencies, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation. In this role she was awarded the Permanent Secretary award for exceptional contribution to the Ministry of Justice.
Previously Carys has worked as a consultant senior applied forensic psychologist with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and as an investigating officer in a police major crime team; roles which required the effective application of psychological theory and principles to prevent and investigate serious crime and terrorism.
Her current and previous roles include being an assessor, behavioural analyst, human factors consultant, evaluator, instructor, programme designer and developer, project manager, researcher, supervisor and trainer.
Dr Rachel Horan (BSc, PhD, C.Psychol. AFBPS, C.Sci)
Rachel is a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society with dual and complementary academic and practice expertise. Rachel has worked for over 15 years in criminal and youth justice fields with wide ranging practitioner, manager, policy and research experience across criminal justice partnerships, locally and nationally.
Her previous roles include being a youth offending service manager and most recently, national specialist lead for group affiliated offending in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This role included contributing to the development, pilot and evaluation of Identity Matters, a manualised, tertiary intervention to prevent serious gang-affiliated offending.
Rachel is a member of the National Home Office Ending Gang and Serious Youth Violence (EGYV) Team and leads and participates in peer reviews; guided reviews conducted by a small team of peers, designed to assist regions in ensuring their partnerships have effective structures and responses in place to contribute to the shared aim of ending gang and youth violence.
Rachel is an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University where she lectures in research and evaluation approaches, criminology and psychology. She is a skilled and experienced quantitative and qualitative researcher and has conducted wide ranging studies across criminal justice areas, including in custodial and community settings. She has researched and published in areas such as group-based offending, identity, desistance, knife crime and interventions to prevent knife crime and joint enterprise. Rachel's expertise lies in conducting and translating research into evidence-based practice and service development, responsive to the field and its operational demands.
