Dr Emily Glorney

Biography

I undertook my BCs(Hons) degree in Psychology at Middlesex University. During this time I held a post as a research worker at the Institute of Psychiatry, working on a project investigating the prevalence of violence and substance misuse amongst community mental health service users. In 1999 I started my MSc Forensic Psychology at the University of Surrey. I carried out research investigating the relationship between thought disorder and violence amongst high secure hospital service users at Broadmoor Hospital, now part of West London Mental Health NHS Trust. I maintained a link with the hospital and started a PhD at the University of Surrey in 2000, conducting research in UK prisons and Broadmoor Hospital. During my PhD, which was partly funded by an ESRC grant, I taught statistics on the undergraduate psychology programme at the University of Surrey, held a post as a research fellow in the Forensic Psychology Unit at the University of Surrey and held various research posts at Broadmoor Hospital. I secured a training contract in forensic psychology at Broadmoor Hospital and worked towards becoming a qualified Forensic Psychologist whilst undertaking my PhD. I completed my PhD in 2005. I completed my training as a Forensic Psychologist in 2006. 

I completed over four years of full-time post-qualification clinical work at Broadmoor Hospital before taking a part-time secondment to the University of Surrey in 2010. I continued to hold weekly clinical assessment and therapy (1:1 and group) commitments in my role as Senior Forensic Psychologist whilst Co-Directing the MSc Forensic Psychology course in my role as Forensic Tutor at the University of Surrey. I joined the University of Surrey full-time in 2012 as Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, where I continue to Co-Direct the MSc Forensic Psychology course. 

I also work in private practice. The main focus of this work is on the provision of individual supervision to trainees working towards the Qualification in Forensic Psychology. 

Research Interests

My work has focused around the clinical application of forensic psychology in high secure hospitals, prisons and community (forensic) mental health teams, with a view to enhancing clinical formulation and interventions. This has principally involved 1) exploration of the relationships between violent offending behaviour and aspects of mental health functioning and personality, using an interpersonal theoretical framework and 2) perpetrator perspectives of aggression, violence and offending behaviour, adopting an interpretative phenomenological analytic approach. Unique contributions have included the identification of specific differences in treatment need within and across violent offenders and emphasised the value of understanding the social experience of violent offenders in violence risk reduction. 

I have research interests in fire-setting, forensic mental health service development, best practice (with a view to developing evidence-based practice) in forensic mental health and service/intervention outcomes evaluation.

Editorial roles

I am Co-Editor of Forensic Update, the newsletter of the Division of Forensic Psychology of the BPS

I currently serve on the editorial board for the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research.

I have been an ad-hoc reviewer for Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health and Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

Publications

Teaching

Module Convenor for PSY3083 The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour

Contact for PSYM016 Psychology and Criminal Behaviour and PSYM077 Violent and Sexual Offending

Dissertation supervision

I supervise Undergraduate Psychology and MSc Forensic Psychology dissertations in the areas of forensic mental health, perpetrator perspectives on offending and/or mental disorder and forensic service evaluation. 

Previous MSc dissertations include:

• Omar Timberlake (2007) Understanding the experience and function of aggressive and violent behaviour: An interpretative phenomenological analysis 
• Georgia Black (2008) The role of context in the construction of violence: Perspectives from mentally disordered perpetrators
• Nicola Carrington-Watts (2008) Understanding interpretations and meanings attached to the function and expression of aggression and violence in British males - with no known history of violent behaviour or offending
• Laura West (2008) Exploring the meaning and process of violence and aggression from the perspective of the perpetrator
• Julie Aaberg (2011) "I need help!": Exploring attitudes, cognitive distortions and psychosocial functioning in people who seek help online after having accessed child abusive material using the internet
• Bettina Boehm (2011) Mentoring within a high secure forensic inpatient service: service user perspectives on developing a mentor service 
• Daniel Ellis (2011) 'Lead me to the truth': Evaluating the construction of the Global Terrorism Database using Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis
• Shelley Parris (2011) In the line of attack: Offenders accounts of victims and how offending behaviour is constructed
• Lizzie Slade (2011) An exploratory study of treatment readiness among prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence in HM Prison Service
• Julia Smith (2011) The Leavers Group: Preparation and progress of patients moving on from a high security hospital
• Harriet Kilbane (2012) "Stopping offending is really important to me": treatment readiness and cognitive functioning within a therapeutic community
• Samantha McCullough (2012) Predictors of aggression and self-harm: a study of the validity of the HCR-20 and VRS within a high secure forensic setting over time
• Abbie McGrath (2012) Recovery expressed in personal experiences on religion/spirituality in a high secure forensic inpatient service: service user perspectives
• Charlotte Sharpe (2012) "It's paramount for the heart, the mind, and the soul of the body": High secure service user perspectives on the role of music in the recovery process
• Kate Ward (2012) An exploratory study into the effectiveness of Securus, an e-safety computer monitoring software, in the monitoring of internet sexual offenders
• Siobhan Windley (2012) Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: do high risk patients remain high risk over time?
• Jennifer Wingrove (2012) "I want to do something a lot better with my life": A qualitative exploration of young peoples' understanding of their own offending

Previous undergraduate dissertation include:

• Sophie Raymont (2012) Religion and spirituality in a high secure forensic inpatient service: service user perspectives on the role of religion and spirituality in personal recovery

Departmental Duties

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology

MSc Forensic Psychology Course Co-Director

Affiliations

Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society; BPS)

Chartered Scientist (The Science Council)

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society

Full Member of the Division of Forensic Psychology of the BPS

Member of the Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Practitioner Forensic Psychologist (HPC)

Registered Applied Psychology Practice Supervisor (RAPPS)

Member of the British Rorschach Society

Member of the Offender Health Research Network

Conference Papers and Posters

Glorney E. and Raymont S. (2013) Religion and spirituality in a UK high secure forensic inpatient service: initial service user perspectives. A paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health, Maastricht, June 2013

Glorney E. and Raymont S. (2013) Religion and spirituality in a high secure forensic inpatient service. A paper to be presented within the Social connection and attachment relationships amongst forensic service users symposium, chaired by E. Glorney, at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference, York, April 2013

McCullough S., Draycott S., Glorney E. and O’Neill D. (2012) Predictors of aggression and self-harm: a pilot study of the validity of the HCR-20 and VRS within a high secure hospital. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2012

Raymont S., Glorney E. and McGrath A. (2012) Religion and spirituality in a high secure forensic hospital: service user perspectives on the role of religion and spirituality in personal recovery. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2012

Sharpe C., Glorney E., Moore E. and Tapp J. (2012) “It’s paramount for the heart, the mind, and the soul of the body”: High secure service user perspectives on the role of music in the recovery process.  A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2012

Windley S., Draycott S., Glorney E. and O’Neill D. (2012) Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder: do high risk patients remain high risk over time? A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2012

Boehm B., Moore E., Tapp J. and Glorney E. Mentoring within a high secure forensic inpatient service: service user perspectives on developing a mentor service. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2011

Smith J., Moore E., Tapp J. and Glorney E. The Leavers' Group: Preparation and progress of patients moving on from a high security hospital. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Hospital Psychological Services Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2011

Black G., Glorney E. and Horvath M. The Role of Context in the Construction of Violence: Perspectives from Mentally Disordered Perpetrators. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Psychological Services Forensic Division Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2008

Carrington-Watts N., Glorney E. and Horvath M. Non-offenders’ constructs of violence. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Psychological Services Forensic Division Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2008

West L., Glorney E. and Horvath M. Exploring the meaning and process of violence and aggression: perspectives of perpetrators detained in HMP Service. A poster presented at the Broadmoor Psychological Services Forensic Division Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2008

Timberlake O. and Glorney E. Understanding the experience and function of aggressive and violent behaviour amongst mentally disordered offender perpetrators: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. A paper presented at the Broadmoor Psychological Services Forensic Division Research Conference, Broadmoor Hospital, November 2007

Glorney E., Lyons E. and Fritzon K. How not to win friends but influence people: an investigation into interpersonal style amongst violent offender populations. A paper presented at the 16th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, University of Liverpool, June 2006

Glorney E., Lyons E. and Fritzon K. An interpersonal approach to the investigation of the functions and motivations of aggressive and violent behaviour amongst interpersonally violent offender populations. A paper presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, June 2006

Glorney E., Fritzon K. and Lyons E. Exploring violence from the perspective of the perpetrator: an interpersonal communication? A paper presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Thirteenth Annual Conference, University of Leicester, March 2004

Glorney E. and Fritzon K. The application of an action systems model to destructive behaviour: The examples of intrafamilial homicide and arson. A paper presented at the First International Conference on Criminal Analysis and Profiling, University of Paris II, June 2002

Glorney E. Examining the relationship between communication difficulties and violent behaviour. A paper presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Tenth Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, April 2001

Book Reviews

Raymont S. and Glorney E. (2012) Straits and Narrow (2008; McClurg G.; Singapore: Monsoon Books). Reviewed for Forensic Update (Issue 105), Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society

Glorney E. (2011) Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice (A. Bartlett and G. McGauley eds.; Oxford: Oxford University Press). Reviewed for Forensic Update (Issue 104), Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society

Glorney E. (2002) Grendon Tales. Stories from a therapeutic community (2001; C. Hollin ed.; Chichester:Wiley). Reviewed for Forensic Update (Issue 68), Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society

Glorney E. (2001) Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment (2001; Smartt U.; Winchester:Waterside Press). Reviewed for Forensic Update (Issue 66), Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society

Sees C. and Glorney E. (2003) Therapeutic Communities for Offenders (1997; Cullen E., Jones L. and Woodward R.; Chichester: Wiley). Reviewed for Forensic Update (Issue 72), Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society