Professor Rajan (Taj) Nathan is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist (Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHSFT and Mersey Care NHSFT), Visiting Professor (University of Chester) and Adjunct Professor (Liverpool John Moores University). He has extensive experience of working in a wide variety of forensic and non-forensic mental health settings and has undertaken postgraduate studies at the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool and Leeds.

His main areas of research currently are in the areas of understanding clinical decision-making, risk, patient safety incidents, and violence. Professor Nathan is regularly called to provide independent expert opinion to courts across the country.

In recent years, he has been involved in the public dissemination of forensic psychiatric topics, with the release of his book (Dangerous Minds: A Forensic Psychiatrist’s Quest to Understand Violence, 2021), publication of his work in The Guardian and The Spectator and radio/TV documentary work.

Dr Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a lead consultant in high and medium secure forensic mental health services in the north of England, and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement and threat assessment and management agencies in the UK and elsewhere for almost 30 years.

Currently, she is an Associate Clinical Consultant with Theseus Fixated Risk Management, based in London, and a scientist at Helse Bergen, Norway. She has held academic appointments since being awarded her research doctorate in 1996 at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester and has just commenced an academic affiliation with University College London. Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder, risk, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and a special interest in gender issues in the range of offending behaviour.

She has published five books and over 80 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, a book co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice, co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in December 2023. She has commenced work on a new book on violent extremism in youth, and a book on personality and risk is in the pipeline. 

Dr Jonathan Hafferty M.D., PhD, is Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Medicines Lead at Broadmoor Hospital, UK, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London.

He is a former Research Lead at Broadmoor Hospital (2019-2024) and specialises in the care of high security forensic patients, particularly on admissions and intensive care.

His research interests include the psychopathology of serious violence; the genetics of mental illness; forensic health informatics and online communities and their relationship with mental disorder and forensic risk. He is also interested in prison mental healthcare and the practice of expert psychiatric evidence to the courts.

Dr Damon Parsons is a forensic psychiatrist and the founder of CEAR (Cyberpsychiatry: Education, Awareness, Research) He is one of the UK’s leading voices on the psychological, social and cultural impacts of digital life, regularly delivering training and talks to clinicians, educators, law enforcement and policymakers.

Drawing on years of clinical experience in high-security mental health services, including Broadmoor Hospital, Dr Parsons brings a unique perspective to issues such as online exploitation, internet addiction, radicalisation and digital disinhibition. His work with CEAR combines critical research, accessible education, and practical tools to promote digital justice and psychological safety in online spaces.

Claire Dinwoodie is a Senior Policy Advisor from the National MAPPA Team whose background is Probation. After studying Psychology at the University of Liverpool, Claire qualified as a Probation Officer in 2008 and spent 11 years practising as a Probation Officer in Offender Management and Courts.

She then went on to manage an Integrated Offender Management Team for several years before becoming the MAPPA Coordinator for Merseyside in 2021. During her time as MAPPA Coordinator, Claire worked closely with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to support colleagues in understanding their responsibilities in relation to MAPPA and developing their risk assessment and risk management skills. In 2024 Claire moved to the National MAPPA Team to provide an operational perspective to the development of central MAPPA Policy.

Professor Clare Allely is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Salford in England and is an affiliate member of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Clare is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences affiliated to the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.

She is a Chartered Member of British Psychological Society and Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society. Clare acts as an expert witness in criminal cases involving defendants with autism spectrum disorder and is a Consultant for the Irish Prison Service.

She has published over 150 academic peer reviewed articles or book chapters. She is author of the book “The Psychology of Extreme Violence: A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism” published by Routledge in 2020 and author of the book “Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Criminal Justice System: A Guide to Understanding Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism” published by Routledge in 2022.

Professor Michelle McManus is Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention and Co-Director of the Institute for Children’s Futures at Manchester Metropolitan University. With over 20 years’ experience in research and policy, her work focuses on safeguarding, violence prevention and multi-agency responses to risk and harm.

She has led national studies on child criminal exploitation, county lines and domestic abuse, working closely with government, policing, health, and social care partners. Michelle brings expertise in evaluating partnership approaches across systems, processes, workforce and lived experience, translating complex evidence into practical learning for frontline services and strategic leaders.