About Cieran

Cieran Harries is a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical and Forensic) candidate and research fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology. He has conducted research in the areas of grievance-fuelled and ideologically motivated violence, youth violence, offender risk assessment and management, forensic mental health, and mental health law. He has held clinical positions at the Children’s Court Clinic (Children’s Court of Victoria), Thomas Embling Hospital, and the Melbourne Assessment Prison; this work has involved the assessment and management of people at risk of violent extremism and grievance-fuelled violence. He is the current Secretary of the Victorian chapter of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and the inaugural President of the organisation’s Early Career body