Dr Mark FreestoneReader in Mental Health and Director of EducationEmail: m.c.freestone@qmul.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 2033Room Number: 2.12, Yvonne Carter BuildingProfileResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileI am Reader in Mental Health and Director of Education & Deputy Director of the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. I originally trained in sociology but now work in public and forensic mental health, conducting epidemiological and health services research into the efficacy of treatments for those with mental health problems, specifically those at risk of violence or becoming victims of violence. I am also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at East London NHS Foundation Trust and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. I have recently consulted on forensic mental health issues for NHS England and the London Violence Reduction Programme, as well as films and television shows such as the BBC America drama series Killing Eve and Channel 4 prison drama Screw. My 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. I have previously held grants from the NIHR and UKRI and am currently mental health co-lead for the North Thames Applied Research Collaboration (NT-ARC). ResearchResearch Interests: Machine-learning algorithms to assist decision-making in management of violence risk Innovative use of routine healthcare data to model mental health outcomes Psychological milieu therapy and therapeutic communities Clinically distinct sub-groups within psychopathy and personality disorders Social climate within forensic settings Psychosocial interventions for personality disorder Causal mechanisms for violence PublicationsPlease click through to see a complete list of Mark's publications Outstanding publications Freestone, M., Osman, M., & Ibrahim, Y. (2022). On the uses and abuses of narcissism as a public health issue. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1-4. doi:10.1192/bjp.2020.70 Kuester, L. & Freestone, M. (2020) Time away is time out: narratives of intentional reimprisonment amongst inmates living with HIV in a US setting, Critical Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2020.1737645 Freestone, M., Ullrich, S. & Coid, J. (2017) Trigger Factors for violent offending: Findings from the UK Prisoner Cohort Study. Criminal Justice and Behavior. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/0093854817713237 Constantinou, A.C., Freestone, M., Marsh, W., Fenton, N. & Coid, J (2015) Risk assessment and risk management of violent reoffending among prisoners. Expert Systems with Applications. DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.05.025 Coid, J., Freestone, M.* & Ullrich, S. (2012) Subtypes of psychopathy in the British household population: findings from the national household survey of psychiatric morbidity. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(6): 879-891.SupervisionJessica Atkinson: Effectiveness of NHS psychological treatments for individuals with a diagnosis of Complex Trauma Kalpana Dein: Pathways in and out of care and co-morbidities of men with High Functioning Autistic Disorders (HFA) in Medium Secure Units Georgina Mathlin: An Evaluation of Open Prisons on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Hannah Lewis: Co-production of an intervention for bodily dysmorphia in Jack Steadman: Mapping Complex Care Pathways for Personality Disorder (MACCA-PD)