Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (CFBS) Staff Profiles

Key Staff (research, management & administrative)

Professor James Ogloff

Director, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Sciences
Foundation Professor of Clinical Forensic Psychology, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine 
Director of Psychological Services, Forensicare

Trained as both a lawyer and psychologist, James R P Ogloff is the Foundation Professor of Clinical Forensic Psychology and Director of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Monash University. He is also the Director of Psychological Services for the Victorian Institute for Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare). Professor Ogloff has worked in the area of psychopathy and personality disorder since 1984. He has published extensively in the area of violence risk assessment and psychopathy. He has appeared as an expert in many high profile cases where questions of risk and other forensic psychological matters have been at issue. Professor Ogloff has conducted workshops on risk assessment and psychopathy for mental health professionals, lawyers, corrections staff, and parole board members. He is the Chair of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists(Victorian Branch), the past President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, and President of the Psychology and Law Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Dr Stuart Thomas

Deputy Director, Centre Forensic Behavioural Science
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

Dr Thomas studied psychology and law before completing his PhD in Health Services Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He now specialises in psychiatric epidemiology, and his research interests focus on the interface between policing and vulnerable populations.

Dr Thomas is the joint course coordinator of the Graduate Program in Forensic Behavioural Science. He also coordinates a specialist undergraduate unit "Psychological Foundations of Law" and is a Committee member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL).

Professor Paul Mullen

Professor Emeritus of Forensic Psychiatry, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

Professor Paul Mullen is an eminent forensic psychiatrist and internationally renowned as a clinician and researcher. His research interests include the relationship between mental disorder and criminal behaviour, stalking, the long-term impact of childhood sexual abuse, jealousy and litigious and chronic complainers.

Professor Mairead Dolan

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Consultant Psychiatrist, Forensicare

Mairead Dolan is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Monash University and Assistant Clinical Director at the Victorian Institute for Forensic Mental Health. In 2008 she moved from the University of Manchester to Melbourne to take up her present position. Professor Dolan currently has two main themed programmes of research; the first focuses on the neurobiology of antisocial behaviour across the lifespan and the second focuses on personality disorder and risk assessment in mentally disordered offenders. Professor Dolan has published widely in these fields and has contributed to and co-edited a textbook on adolescent forensic psychiatry (Eds Bailey & Dolan) and the recently published Handbook of Forensic Mental Health (Eds Soothill, Rogers & Dolan).

Associate Professor Trish Martin

Honorary Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Director of Nursing Practice, Forensicare

Associate Professor Trish Martin is a leader in the field of forensic psychiatric nursing education. Her areas of expertise include managing patient aggression, therapeutic relationships, risk assessment, nursing documentation practices, and nursing innovation in forensic mental health services.

Associate Professor Martin received a commendation from State Nursing Excellence and Commitment Awards (2003), a Letter of Commendation from Monash University for Outstanding Academic Achievement (1994) and a Special Nursing Prize for Excellence in Academic and Clinical Areas at Mont Park Hospital (1983). 

Dr Rachael Fullam

Lecturer, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Research Officer, Forensicare

Dr Fullam completed her PhD in Forensic Neuropsychology in 2006 and continued in a post-doctoral capacity at Manchester University until early 2007. In June 2007 she moved to Melbourne along with Professor Dolan and is now a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science. The majority of her research has focused on the neuropsychological and neural correlates of antisocial/violent behaviour and poor outcome in a range of clinical populations (Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder and ADHD). As such, she utilises a range of neuropsychological and functional and structural brain imaging techniques. She also carries out research into violence risk assessment in juvenile and adult populations.

Dr Andrew Carroll

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Forensicare

Dr Carroll's clinical background includes internships in general medicine and neurosurgery, psychiatric specialty training and consultant experience in general adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. His research interests include examining insight in psychosis and the patients' self-assessment of their psychosocial needs, enhancing compliance with medication in psychosis, management of forensic patients and serious violence associated with motor vehicle use.

He has been awarded the 1998 Max Hamilton Prize at the University of Leeds for best MMedSci dissertation. In 1991 Dr Carroll was awarded the Medical School Prize in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.

Dr Michael Daffern

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Principal Psychologist, Forensicare

Dr Michael Daffern is a clinical psychologist by training. He has worked as a clinical and forensic psychologist within mainstream adult psychiatry, forensic mental health and correctional settings. Presently, he is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine and Principal Consultant Psychologist with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare).

He was awarded his PhD from the University of South Australia, in 2004. His research interests include violence within institutions, personality disorder, and behavioural assessment methods.

Dr Troy McEwan

Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Forensicare

Dr Troy McEwan is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, and a Research Fellow at Monash University. She studied psychology as part of an undergraduate Arts degree at the University of Melbourne, and completed a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) at Monash University in 2008. Her clinical background includes internships in general and forensic mental health, and work in forensic settings. She lectures in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses provided by the CFBS, and provides training to external services. Her research interests include stalking, arson, and threat assessment, and the management of individuals engaging in these types of problem behaviours.

Dr Lisa Warren

Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

Lisa is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. She is a member of the APS Colleges of Clinical Psychology and Forensic Psychology. Lisa worked for several years at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare), where she was the Foundation Manager of the Problem Behaviour Program, an outpatient clinic specialising in particular forms of criminal conduct such as stalking, threatening, firesetting, sexual aberrance and recidivistic violence. Lisa was also the Foundation Coordinator of the forensic psychology program at the Monash University Clinical Psychology Centre. She is currently working with the CFBS as a Research Fellow for Project PRIMeD (Police Responses to the Interface with Mental Disorder), a $3.5M ARC Linkage Project Grant.

Lisa's PhD studies examined threats and threateners. Her research aimed to identify risk factors for violence among those who have threatened to kill, particularly the roles of prior offending, mental disorders and substance abuse. She has published and lectured widely in the area of threat management.

Dr Stefan Luebbers

Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Forensicare

Dr Stefan Luebbers completed his Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) at Monash University in 2009. He holds positions as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health and a Research Fellow at Monash University. His clinical background includes experience in general and forensic mental health, drug and alcohol dual diagnosis, youth justice, and correctional settings. His research interests include mentally disordered offenders, risk assessment of youth offenders, personality disorder, and the interface between policing and those experiencing mental illness.

Associated Researchers

Professor Bernadette McSherry

ARC Federation Fellow, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Dr Jonathan Clough

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Dr Danny Sullivan

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Consultant Psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Director (Community Operations), Forensicare

Dr Kylie Thomson

Principal Psychologist, Forensicare

Associate Professor Rosemary Sheehan

Associate Prof, Department of Social Work, Monash University

Associate Professor Louise Farnworth

Associate Prof and Head, Department of Occupational Therapy, Monash University

Mr David Bradley

Office of the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police