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Role

Rosanna currently holds responsibility as a course leader on the MSc Forensic Psychology and she is a Personal tutor for undergraduate years 2 and 3. She co-leads the Qualitative Legal and Criminological lab for final year research project students. She is also on the supervision team for a doctoral student on the topic of applying the procedural justice approach to people convicted of sexual offences (PCOSO’s).

She is currently undertaking a Level 7 Teaching Specialist Academic Professional Apprenticeship.

Career overview

Rosanna is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Registered Forensic Psychologist with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC).

Before joining NTU, she was employed by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) for over 14 years. Primarily working with people with sexual convictions in closed prison settings conducting psychological 1:1 intervention work and group based interventions with adults and young adults. She was previously a Treatment Manager for HMPPS Horizon programme. She is an experienced psychological risk assessor, trained in tools designed to assess risk in relation to sexual offending, violent offending and stalking. She has a number of years’ experience of providing evidence at Parole Hearings as an expert witness. She has spent time working in the open estate and in the Young Offender estate within HMPPS.

Within HMPPS she designed and delivered training to staff in open conditions, in relation to offence related sexual interests and to trainee Forensic Psychologists in relation to Personality Disorder, Formulation and consultation. She also conducted a review of the Enhanced Behavioural Monitoring risk management initiative in open conditions for HMPPS.

External activity

Rosanna continues to complete Psychological Risk Assessments for HMPPS as an independent practitioner and she is also a member of the Division of Forensic Psychology within the BPS.