Biography

I am currently studying for a doctorate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr. Jenny Yiend (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) and Prof. Tom Burns. My thesis examines the relationship between level of engagement in group psychotherapy and emotion processing ability in psychopathy. This study evolved from the work I conducted as a Research Assistant on the IDEA project at Oxford, which investigated the efficacy of psychotherapeutic treatment for Dangerous and Severe Personality Disordered offenders. I am a Graduate member of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Previously I worked at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge where I was Research Manager on the Peterborough Adolescent Development Study, examining adolescent pathways into crime. Earlier I worked with children and adolescents with emotional behavioural difficulties in social care and educational settings in Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester and Lancashire.

Education

Sep 1995 to July 1998 University of Liverpool BA (Hons) Sociology First Class

1996 John Bury University Undergraduate Scholarship (Psychology)

1997 John Patterson University Undergraduate Scholarship (Sociology)

Publications

Saradjian, J., Murphy N., Casey, H. (in print). Report on the first cohort of prisoners to complete treatment on the Fens Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Unit at HMP Whitemoor, Prison Service Journal

Willmott, L., Casey, H., Rogers, R., & Yiend, J. (2009). Facial emotion processing in psychopathy. In A. Freitas-Magalhaes (Ed), Emotion expression: the brain and the face. Porto: University Fernando Pessoa Press.

Conference presentations

Casey H., Yiend J., Rogers, R. & Burns T., Attention to threat and memory bias in a group of psychopathic offenders. Stress and Anxiety Research Conference, Birkbeck College, London, July 2008.

McKinnon H. & Wikstrom P-O., Peer delinquency, neighbourhoods and crime. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Krakow, August 2005.

Poster presentations

Casey H., Yiend J., Rogers R. & Burns T., Does level of psychopathy predict emotion regulation ability? Emotional Attention Meeting, University of Ghent, January 2011.

Casey H., Yiend J. & Burns T., The relationship between engagement in group psychotherapy and approach avoidance behaviour in severe personality disorder. Medical Sciences DPhil Day, University of Oxford, June 2008 

Casey H., Yiend J., Rogers R. & Burns T., Cognitive and emotional functions tasks at the Fens Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Unit at HMP Whitemoor, January 2008.