Amanda Perry
Professor

Profile

Biography

Amanda Perry is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Professor and Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group (MHARG). Her research interests focus on the evaluations of evidenced-based psychological interventions with people involved in the criminal justice system.  She is currently responsible for a £2.2m NIHR programme grant referred to as AMICABLE.

Qualifications

• BSc Combined in Psychology and Science, University of Leicester
• MA in Health Services Research, Nuffield Institute, Leeds University
• PhD in the development of a screening instrument for offenders at risk of suicide and self-harm behaviour, University of York
• Chartered Forensic Psychologist
• Certificate of Competence in Psychological Testing Level A & Level B
• City and Guilds 730 Teachers Certificate

Departmental roles

• Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group
• Honorary Consultant Psychologist with Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust 
• Chair of Athena Swan Working Group
• Faculty of Science Athena Swan Committee Member

Research

Overview

Amanda's research interests lie in systematic reviews, primary research in mental health interventions with offender populations, psychometrics, and suicide and self-harm risk.

Projects

• Systematic review of attachment disorders in young people at risk and diagnosed with attachment problems
• An interrupted time series study investigating the feasibility of implementing a problem solving intervention with offenders at risk of suicide and self-harm behaviour
• A family of four Cochrane Collaboration reviews focusing on the effectiveness of drug treatment for offenders

Research group(s)

• Mental Health and Addiction

Available PhD research projects

Amanda would be interested in receiving proposals in the following areas, although no funding is currently available: The development of a new CONSORT Statement for Criminal Justice Trials: A Delphi Methodology, Cochrane systematic review of drug treatments for female offenders, Cochrane systematic review of drug treatments for offenders with mental health problems, Cochrane systematic review of drug treatments for pharmacological interventions with drug using offenders, Cochrane systematic review of drug treatments for non pharmacological treatment with drug using offenders.

Supervision

Amanda would be interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas: suicide and self-harm in prisoners, psychological therapies with prisoners (e.g. problem solving or CBT), quality assessment methodological work with randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews in any area, drug treatments with offenders, systematic reviews or experimental work.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• PhD supervision
• Programme Lead for the Masters Applied Health Research
• Dclin supervision
• Lead for the Applied Health Dissertation Module

Publications

Full publications list

• Amanda Perry's publications

External activities

Memberships

• British Psychological Society
• Division of Forensic Psychology

Editorial duties

• Editorial Board Member of Health and Justice Journal

Invited talks and conferences

• Invited to speak at In-House conference TEWV Trust Conference on 19^th November,  (2019) Middlesborough, UK.
•  Invited to speak at ‘TED STYLE TALKS’ in York, York Medical Society as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on 4 November (2019). The event is entitled 'Researching with you'.
• Invited to deliver a blog for Suicide Prevention Day for BMC Blog Suicide in the Criminal Justice System , September (2019).
• Invited to speak at The International Conference on Justice Development, Law, Business and Technologies Preventing Crime, Warsaw, Poland, December 5^th (2019).