Professor Neil Hall

• BEd (Hons) (Sussex) Education and Geography
• MA (Lancaster) Educational Research (Psychology & Social Science Research Methods)
• MLitt (Aberdeen) Educational Psychology
• PG Dip (Lancaster) Health Research (Mental Health)
• AFBPsS (Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society)
• CPsychol (Chartered Educational Psychologist; Chartered Forensic Psychologist) (BPS)
• CSci (Chartered Scientist) (Science Council)
• Statement of Competence in Educational Testing (BPS)

Neil has been the Head of a Child and Family Psychology Service within a Social Services Department; he has been the Head of and Consultant Psychologist in a Child & Family Clinical Psychology Service in the NHS and he has worked in an Adult Mental Health Clinical Psychology Specialty in an Adult Psychiatry hospital; previously, he has worked as a Consultant Psychologist in a Risk Assessment Project of the NSPCC.

Neil also qualified as a forensic psychologist and he regularly undertook Court work in regard to children who have been or are at risk of being maltreated; of those who have been charged with various criminal matters; and of parents with learning disabilities, substance misuse and or mental health problems.  He has written hundreds of reports and given evidence in more than 100 trials in the Magistrates, County and High Courts; he has also presented evidence to Adoption Panels and Special Needs Tribunals.   As a part of his continuing professional development, he undertook further postgraduate study as an Expert Witness in Family Work for the Courts.

Research interests

• Learning and teaching in higher education
• Student mental health in higher education
• Child and family forensic psychology and mental health – risk assessment; parent-child interactions; contact
• Teachers’ models of mental health and psychological well-being;

Neil has previously been awarded a Research Fellowship by the NHS Health Action Zone Programme to develop an assessment and treatment programme for parents with mental health problems where child-care might be a cause for concern. 

He has also been awarded Social Science Research Council scholarships for PGT and PGR study at Lancaster University.