Autism, Learning Disabilities & Offending Behaviour Conference Speakers CVs
Magali-Fleur Louise Barnoux
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and IDD, Tizard Centre UKC
Dr Barnoux is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and IDD and BPS Chartered Psychologist, specialising in the research, assessment, and treatment of offenders with IDD. She has held research and enterprise grants totalling over £35,000 and has extensive expertise in managing and delivering applied funded research studies within forensic settings. Dr Barnoux has also collaborated with government agencies on various research projects, which have informed future strategic decision-making (Home Office, Ministry of Justice). She was also a member of the team who won the University of Kent Faculty of Social Sciences Research Prize (2015) and the ESRC Outstanding Impact in Society Award (2016).
Neisha Betts
Project Manager, NHS England & Improvement
Neisha is trained as a researcher in psychology, working in universities before starting policy work and research with Offender Health, Department of Health in 2005, then later working for Health & Justice, NHS England & Improvement. She works on the national Liaison and Diversion programme, leading on equalities and learning disabilities and also works on learning disabilities/autism related work for the wider Health & Justice team, specifically the adult prison and Immigration Removal Centre estates.
Nicholas Clarke
Independent Autism Campaigner
Nicholas Clarke is an autism advocate campaigner for fairer treatment and understanding for autistic individuals that find themselves in the criminal justice system. On Friday June 3rd, 2005 at Birmingham Magistrates Court, Nick was convicted for Actual Bodily Harm and criminal damage following an incident at a hostel where he had been moved following a period of transition in his life. Nick regularly speaks about his experiences in the criminal justice system and has recently been involved in the ERC VOICES Project coordinated by Dr Eilionóir Flynn at the National University of Ireland in Galway. As part of this, he co-wrote a book chapter with Dr Nell Munro and Dr Chloe Holloway about his experiences titled 'Going to Pot: Nick's Journey through the Criminal Justice System'.
Hannah Hayward
Neurodevelopmental Specialist, St Giles Trust
Spanning over a decade, Hannah’s extensive work in autism covers research, diagnosis, mentoring, care, training and education. She is highly experienced in delivering gold standard for diagnosis of both adults and children and sees patients and their families both privately and through her ongoing work with Maudsley NHS hospital. She is in the final stages of completing a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London on how we can better understand sex differences and similarities in the autism profile. Since 2012, Hannah has been delivering psycho-educational workshops with male and female offenders across London prisons. Having been part of a successful bid for government funding in early 2018, she is now partnering with St. Giles Trust to improve service provision for women with mental health and complex support needs in England’s Criminal Justice System. Hannah has dedicated herself to autism research and tirelessly advocates for increased public understanding of autistic women, and indeed the greater well-being of all those with neurodiverse conditions.
Chloe Holloway
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Dr Chloe Holloway is an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research aims to improve the support of autistic individuals in police custody through changes to practice, policy and the custody environment. She regularly works with police forces to deliver autism training for custody staff and offer advice on how they can make their custody suites more ‘autism-friendly’. Dr Holloway is currently investigating the need for national autism training for police forces in the UK and is trialling an autism training package to gather feedback on whether it improves custody staff’s knowledge of autism. More information about her work can be found here.
Barry Ingham
Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust/Newcastle University
Dr Barry Ingham is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Psychological Services Director at Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust. He is also Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. He works clinically offering psychological assessment and intervention for autistic adults and has led projects researching new approaches to addressing mental and physical health conditions experienced by autistic people.
Chris Kelly
Deputy Head of Health and Justice, Health & Justice National Team, NHS England & Improvement
Chris is Assistant Head of Health and Justice for NHS England & Improvement’s National Team, a post she has held since April 2013.
Chris previously had a long career in the National Probation Service, then worked to commission the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) on behalf of Nottinghamshire’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT). She also worked with the University of Central Lancashire developing BME access to DIP services. She worked with the Home office to develop the ‘Around Arrest Beyond Release’ documents, offering national guidance for the delivery of engaging family and carers in supporting recovery.
Chris was the manager of the DAAT in Nottinghamshire and then in 2009 moved to a Deputy Director position in CRI, a provider organisation delivering substance misuse services in both community and custodial settings. In 2011, Chris led the DAAT in Worcestershire before taking up her current position with NHS England & Improvement’s Health and Justice central commissioning team. Here she holds a responsibility for the adult secure and detained estate, with a particular specialism in the women’s prison estate, Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) and an oversight of the mental health management of people in prisons and IRCs.
John L Taylor
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northumbria University and Associate Director for Psychological Services, Northumberland.
John L Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Director for Psychological Services with Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Taylor is a chartered clinical and forensic psychologist. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Mental Health Act Advisory Group and Approved Clinician Peer-Review Panel and a Past President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
Dr Taylor was one of the first two psychologists to be approved as an Approved Clinician in England following the MHA 2007. He has published more than 140 research papers, articles, books and book chapters mainly concerning the mental health and forensic needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Most recently he co-edited the The Wiley Handbook on Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2018) with the late Professor Bill Lindsay.
Dr Taylor received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Applied Practice from the BPS Faculty for Forensic Clinical Psychology in 2017 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the BABCP in 2018 for his work on developing CBT for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.