Recently working with offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk from offending, to give them the skills to change their behaviour and get into (back into) the workplace/training/volunteering and lead a more fulfilling life. 

 

I have been studying serial offenders for over 25 years, and am a STEM Ambassador and teach science-based workshops through Science Boffins and Aye Spy:CSI.

 

In a nutshell:

 

• I am a qualified chairing member of the Children's Panel and sit on hearings at least once per month

• Have worked on a live murder inquiry

• Was the elected Student Rep for Scotland for the British Psychological Society (2014-2016)

• Have had a peer-reviewed paper published

• Wrote my first paper on serial offending at age 11 (Jack the Ripper)

• Registered Naloxone carrier

• Canine and feline first aider

 

 

CPD/PDA Courses and Training

Ongoing/Current

• TEFL & TEFL Online

• NLP & Life Coaching Practitioner

• Amichien Bonding® - Dog Listener Graduate Training 

• CertHE in Feline Behaviour and Psychology 

• BSL Online

 

Planned 

• PgCert International Forensics and Crime Scene Investigation 

• CertHE/Level III Professional Investigator Training - I already investigate the entertainment industry

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2020

• Information Governance: Children's Hearings Scotland

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2019

• Mental Health First Aid

• Emergency First Aid at Work

• SQA Level 7: Management of Hearings

• SQA Level 7: Principals and Practice for Children’s Panel Members

• SQA Level 7: Needs of Children and Young People in the Children’s Hearings System

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2018

• PDA - Children's Hearings Scotland: Managing Hearings 

• Amichien Bonding® - Dog Listener Training - Foundation & Advanced

• Canine & Feline First Aid

 

2017

• Working with Schedule One and Registered Sex Offenders - Apex Scotland

• PDA – Children’s Hearings in Scotland, Panel Members:

  • Needs of Children and Young People in the Children’s Hearings System

  • Principals and Practice for Children’s Panel Members

 

2016

• Identifying the Dead: Forensic Science and Human Identification - University of Dundee

 

2014

• Alzheimer's and Dementia - NHS Scotland

• Introduction to Forensic Science - Strathclyde University

 

2013

• Forensic Psychology: Eyewitness Psychology & Testimony - The Open University

• Forensic Science & Criminal Justice - University of Leicester 

 

Recent Relevant Voluntary Work

2017 - present

• Children's Panel - Qualified Chairing Member

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2016 - present

• STEM Ambassador - available for teaching science & crime scene based workshops for children across Scotland

 

2014 - present

• fostering cats and dogs whose owners find themselves in emergency homeless, hospitalisation or domestic abuse situations

 

2012 - present

• counselling survivors of rape

 

2010 - present

• investigating the entertainment industry: outing scammers and fraudsters

 

2008 - present

• elected Equity Branch Secretary (entertainment union)

 

2016

• researcher for Police Scotland and Norfolk Constabulary on an ongoing murder investigation (Operation Monton)

 

2015 - 2016

• mentoring young people away from the criminal justice system

• elected Uni class rep

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2014 - 2016

• elected student rep for Scotland for the British Psychological Society

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2012 - 2013

• self-advocacy assistant for adults with learning disabilities 

 

2012 - 2014 

• elected Uni class rep