Yvonne Shell

About

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'.