Dr. Charlie Brooker

Dr. Charlie Brooker has been a researcher and academic for over thirty years. His main interest was in psychosocial approaches for the care of people with serious mental health problems up until 1995 when he was professor of mental health both in Sheffield and Manchester. Since then, he has almost exclusively researched aspects of the Criminal Justice system and mental health. This work has taken him into police stations, prisons, courts, sexual assault referral centres, and, in the last 10-15 years, probation services.

In 2010 he retired formally from University life but was awarded an honorary chair at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is still a co-applicant on research studies, publishes and provides consultancy advice. He currently has a book contract with Routledge, with his colleague, Coral Sirdifield, for a volume that will be produced in December, 2021 entitled ‘Probation, the Criminal Justice System and Mental Health’.