Yvonne Shell

I am a dually qualified clinical and forensic practitioner psychologist, as well as an Associate Professor of Forensic Psychology at KU. In my academic role I work as course director for the MSc in Forensic Psychology, and I act as Module Leader on the 'Antisocial Behaviour across the Lifespan' element of this programme. 

I have worked as a practitioner psychologist for over three decades, holding positions across a broad range of forensic service provision, which has included prisons, high security psychiatric services (e.g., Broadmoor Hospital) as well as working in medium, low security services, and in the community.  I currently work with the Metropolitan Police Service and HMPPS in developing  a criminal justice understanding and response to the Chemsex context and crime within it. I research within the Chemsex context and have provided the first  international research into Chemsex and crime. My other areas of research interest are in the role of shame and moral injury in offender populations, intimate partner violence, and sexual offending.

I received an award from the British Psychological Society for textbook of the year in 2018, with a book entitled 'Forensic Psychology: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice', completed with two co-authors. My most recent book publication in 2023 was a book on Rape, 'Revealing Rape's many Voices: Differing Roles, Reactions and Reflections'.