Position: Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme
Director MSc Forensic Psychology
School: Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences
E-mail:
nbowes@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2020 1169
Room No: D3.12
Teaching
Programme Director
- Joint Programme Director Doctorate Forensic Psychology
- Programme Director Post Graduate Diploma in Practitioner
Forensic Psychology
Module Leader
- Portfolio (PG Dip Practitioner Forensic Psychology)
- Functional Assessment and Formulation
- Teaching and Training
Teaching
- Largely on Post Graduate Programmes, some involvement to
Forensic Psychology module in BSc Psychology
Publications
Published and accepted for publications
- Nicola Bowes, Julian Walker, Elise Hughes, Rhiannon Lewis, Gemma Hyde. The Role of Violent Thinking in Violent Behavior: It’s More About Thinking Than Drinking. Article first published online: August 4, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517724254
- Bowes, N., McMurran, M., Evans, C., Oatley, G., Williams, B. & David, S. (2014) Treating alcohol-related violence: a feasibility study of a randomized controlled trial in prisons
, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 25:2, 152-163.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14789949.2014.895025#tabModule
- Bowes, N., McMurran, M. (2013) Cognitions Supportive of
Violence and Violent Behavior, Aggression and Violent Behavior,
(in press)
- Goodwill, A. M., Stephens, S., Oziel, S., Sharma, S., Allen,
J.C., Bowes, N., Lehmann, R., (2013) Advancement of Criminal
Profiling Methods in Faceted Multidimensional Analysis, Journal
of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling,10:1, 71-95.
- Walker, J., Bowes, N., (2013) The evaluation of violent
thinking in adult offenders and non-offenders using the Maudsley
Violence Questionnaire. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health,
23:3, 113-123.
- Bowes, N., Ruck, S., Tehrani, N., (2013) Evaluating
Trauma Debriefing within the UK Prison Service, British Journal
of Forensic Practice, 15,4.
- Bowes, N. McMurran, M., Williams, B., David, S., Zammit,
I. (2012) Treating Alcohol-related violence: Intermediate outcomes
in a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial in prisons,
Criminal Justice and Behaviour, Vol. 39 No.3, pp333-344
- McCarthy, J., Bowes, N., White, A., Warren, S., Fisher,
D., Sellen, J., (2012) Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with female
forensic patients with borderline personality disorder: preliminary
findings from a pilot study, Forensic Update, 105, pp7-17
- Goodwill, A.M., Stephens, S., Oziel, S., Yapp, J. & Bowes, N.
(2012). Multidimensional latent classification of ‘street robbery’
offences, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender
Profiling, 9, 93-109.
- Palmer, C., Bowes, N., Kissell, A., Dunn, E., Taylor,
P.J. (2011) Length of prison stay of custodially remanded pre-trial
men, Forensic Update, 102.
- Bowes, N., Sutton, A., Jenkins, S., & McMurran, M., 2009.
The alcohol treatment needs of violent and non-violent prisoners.
British Journal of Forensic Practice. 11:1, pp3-7
- Bowes, N. 2008, Psychology in Prisons, Book Review:
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 18:5, pp 321-322.
Conference Presentations and Poster Presentations
- 2014 - Randomized controlled trials (RCT) in UK prisons: Findings from a feasibility study exploring the impact of an alcohol related violence intervention. Paper presented at the Forensic Science and Criminalistics Research conference, Singapore.
- 2012 – British Psychological Society Division of Forensic
Psychology Annual Conference, Presentation: Violent thinking.
- 2011 – American Society of Psychology and Law International
Conference: Poster Presentation: Profiling Robbery Offenders from
Crime Scene Behaviours: A Revised Framework for Multidimensional
Statistical Profiling.
- 2010 – Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference:
Presentation: Control of Violence for Angry, Impulsive Drinkers
(COVAID): current Findings from a randomised controlled trial
feasibility study.
- 2009 – British Criminological Society National Conference:
Presentation: The Alcohol Treatment Needs of Violent and Non-violent
Offenders.
- 2008 – British Psychological Society, Division of Forensic
Psychology Annual Conference: Poster presentation: The window of
opportunity for mental healthcare among remanded prisoners.
- 2008 – Offender Health Research Network: Poster presentation:
Violent Thinking and Violent Behaviour.
- 2008 – Offender Health Research Network: Poster presentation:
Profiling Robbery Offenders
Profile
Nicola is a Forensic Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff
Metropolitan University. Her practice and research interests relate to
violent offending. She is interested in develop the methodologies used
by clinicians in the risk assessment of violent offenders and exploring
how more effective interventions can be developed. Nicola is a
registered practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council and
also works as a Visitor for the HPC assisting them to evaluate academic
programmes for practitioner psychologists in the UK. She is also a
Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and
Full Member of the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP). She is a
member of the DFP committee and is currently Consultations Lead and Lead
Web Editor.
Nicola is the Programme Director for the Practitioner Forensic
Psychology Programme (which has been running since January 2012) and is
the Joint Programme Director for the MSc Forensic Psychology. She has
jointly developed the practitioner programmes at Cardiff Metropolitan
University to provide the first programmes to allow our students to
study towards being registered psychologists eligible to practice in the
UK. She has many collaborative projects with organisations external to
the university, including National Offender Management Service, Amelia
Trust (funded by Beacons for Wales), Group 4 Security, Cardiff Youth
Offending Team (Funded by Strategic Insight Programme), Partnerships in
Care – Llanarth Court (funded by Strategic Insight Programmes) and many
others. She recognises the value in sharing knowledge between academics
and practitioners and seeks to share this with students at Cardiff
Metropolitan University to extend the application of psychology in
practice.