Dr. Deborah Lee is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. She has specialised in the field of trauma for 35 years and runs the Veteran Mental Health service and trauma services in Berkshire Healthcare. She is a founding board member of the Compassionate Mind Foundation, which is a charity set up to disseminate the science and practice of compassion in all areas of life including mental health, schools and leadership. Deborah has pioneered the development of one of the first in-house compassionate leadership training programmes for NHS staff which has now been adopted by several other NHS organisations. This programme has been rolled out over the past 10 years in Berkshire Healthcare and has been recognised as a contributory factor to high staff engagement scores on the annual NHS staff survey.

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Presenters: Dr. Sally Tilt and Dr. Kerensa Hocken

Producers: Andrew Wilkie and Katie Stokes

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Dr Dominic Willmott is an Associate Professor in Legal and Criminological Psychology at Loughborough University in the UK and Adjunct Professor in Psychology at SWPS University in Poland. His research primarily investigates bias within criminal legal systems, with a particular focus on jury decision-making in rape trials and the influence (and prevalence) of rape myths on societal and legal judgements towards rape complainants. He has published his research widely, authoring more than 100 research outputs to date where he applies robust and innovative psychologically informed methods to evidence bias in legal decision making and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to address these biases. He has received more than £5 million in research funding to carry out this research and is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Criminal Psychology as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Justice is Now, a charity that aims to reduce the bias towards victims of sexual violence. He formerly served as Research Advisor to the UK Victim Commissioner (Dame Vera Baird) and is currently course leader for the Masters degree in Criminology at Loughborough University.

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Presenters: Dr. Sally Tilt and Dr. Kerensa Hocken

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* This episode was recorded in March 2026, prior to Prime Minister Andy Burnham's announcement to the House of Commons that he intended to legislate to resolve IPPs before the end of the current parliament.

Dr. Lisa Smith is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and she leads the HMPPS Indeterminate Sentence Prisoner (ISP) team for psychology services. Her work focuses on providing advice and guidance across HMPPS on psychological services for complex and indeterminate sentence prisoners, including those serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis titled Understanding the Barriers to Progression of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) Sentenced Prisoners: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. Her research involved in-depth interviews with individuals serving IPP sentences, HMPPS staff and Parole Board members, offering insights into the systemic and psychological challenges affecting IPP progression.

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Presenters: Dr. Sally Tilt and Dr. Kerensa Hocken

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