Mark gave an infomative presentation to our Year 12 students about career path options within Psychology and shared his very interesting career journey so far. 

Mark is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute for Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London. He has a first class honors degree in Social and Political Sciences fromt the University of Cambridge, and gained his PhD in Applied Social Science from the University of Nottingham in 2005. His core research interests include: psychosocial treatment of mental health, particularly personality disorder; forensic mental health; the epidemiology of violence; clinical presentation and sub-types of psychopathy; and criminological research relating to prisons and prisoners.

Mark is a reader in Mental Health and Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes in the Wolfson Institute. Following a background in social science, he has since come to work mainly in the field of forensic mental health, conducting both epidemiological and health services research into the efficacy of treatments for offenders. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at East London NHS Foundation Trust and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He has also consulted on forensic mental health issues for NHS England and recently the BBC America drama series Killing Eve. Dr Freestone’s current work includes: the epidemiology of violence; outcomes research in forensic mental health services; causal inference networks for violence risk management; clinical sub-types of personality disorder and psychopathy; substance misuse as a risk factor for violence; and patterns of service use by young men in the UK. His current research is into the understanding of causal mechanisms in risk assessment using advanced statistical modelling, and the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for offenders with personality disorder.

Dr Freestone has previously held grants from both the NIHR and ESRC. In 2015 he received funding from the UK Ministry of Justice to conduct a mixed-method evaluation of the combined Ministry of Justice/NHS England initiative to develop Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) within HM Prison Service and the Probation service across England and Wales.

                                 Mark has a published book " Making a Physcopath" My journey in to 7 Dangerous Minds 

Find out what truly makes a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle. Dr Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most disturbing psychopath cases of recent times - this is his extraordinary journey with the people society would rather forget.