Monica Lloyd

BA (Hons) Psychology (University of Exeter)
MSc in Applied Criminological Psychology (Birkbeck College)
Chartered Forensic Psychologist 1989
HCPC registered 2011
Elected Fellow of the BPS 2017

Monica Lloyd gained her professional qualifications within the Prison Service and over the course of her career worked in prisons, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the National Offender Management Service (now HMPPS). She co-produced the methodology for assessing risk and needs in extremist offenders (the ERG22+) that has become a common assessment framework for the criminal justice system and informs the work of Prevent. She continues to work in the area of counter-terrorism, and part time as Training Coordinator for the joint forensic clincial doctorate programme.

Monica Lloyd acts as Training Coordinator for the Doctorate course in Forensic Clinical Psychology and teaches Theories of Extremism and Working with Extremist Offenders.

Students wishing to enquire about post-graduate supervision at the University should contact her via her University e mail.

Research interests

• the psychology and extremism and terrorism
• extremism risk assessment
• extremism pathways and mental health
• the mental health effects of solitary confinement
• the psychology of lone actors
• ethical guidelines for working with extremist offenders

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Prison Service Journal
• Consultancy to the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office
• Contributor to the Global Centre for Cooperative Security

• European Commission: Radicalisation Awareness Network, from July 2020