BA (Hons) Psychology (University of Exeter)
MSc in Applied Criminological Psychology (Birkbeck College)
Chartered Forensic Psychologist 1989
HCPC registered 2011
Associate Fellow of the BPS 2013

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. Her later work developing a methodology for assessing risk and needs in extremist offenders has become a common assessment framework for the national criminal justice system and is now the subject of a proposed PhD. She continues to work in the area of counter-terrorism and part time as a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham.

Monica Lloyd contributes to the Forensic module of the undergraduate Psychology course and acts as Training Coordinator for the Doctorate course in Forensic Clinical Psychology.

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

Co-investigator for CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence in Security Threats)

Research interests

• the psychology and extremism and terrorism
• extremism risk assessment
• extremism pathways and mental health
• the mental health effects of solitary confinement

• 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