Dr Owen Forster BSc, DClinPsy, CPsychol, FHEA

Psychology BSc

Doctorate In Clinical Psychology DClinPsy

Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education PGCHE

Dr Forster graduated from the University of Hull in 2012. He has worked in a variety of Clinical Forensic settings since then, including secure hospitals, probation, prisons and in the private sector. He began work at the University of Birmingham in 2019 and took up his current role as Programme Director in 2021. In addition to his University work, Dr Forster provides expert witness testimony to family, criminal and prison courts.

Dr Forster teaches across the Post-Graduate Psychology programmes on topics including Power Threat Meaning, the Therapeutic Alliance, Risk Assessment, Youth Offending, Schema Therapy and Lived-Experience of Mental Health in Psychologist. He has also been developing and delivering sessions on Race and Racism in Psychology in conjunction with Shola Apena Rogers.

Supervision for taught doctoral research on the ForenClinPsyD and ClinPsyD programmes

Experiences of lived mental health in practitioners, experiences of race and racism in practitioners, self-injury, youth offending (including gang offending), trauma informed care, adverse childhood experiences.