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Howard Ryland
MBBS, MA(Cantab), MSc, DPhil, MRCPsych
Senior Clinical Researcher
- Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
- Organiser, Oxford Postgraduate Psychiatry Course
NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement award in Clinical Trials
I am currently an Oxford Policy Engagement Network fellow at the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) where I am researching a briefing for parliamentarians on approaches to improving patient choice in the proposed reforms of the Mental Health Act.
I completed a Development and Skills Enhancement award from the National Institute of Health Research, gaining skills in clinical trials. I also work as an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, where I have previously provided input in to the Treatment Resistant Depression clinic at the Warneford Hospital and the PAX-D trial and as a visiting prison psychiatrist to HMP Huntercombe.
I completed my DPhil in the Department of Psychiatry in 2021, supervised by Professor Seena Fazel. I was also supervised by Professor Raymond Fitzpatrick, from the Nuffield Department of Population Health and Associate Professor Jonathan Cook from the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences.
My DPhil project focused on understanding which outcomes are important for patients and clinicians in forensic mental health services, which was used to develop a new outcome measure for forensic mental health services called the FORensic oUtcome Measure (FORUM). This has complementary patient and clinician scales. Visit www.forensicoutcomemeasure.com for more information.
Previous roles include National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (2012-2013), Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) Trainees’ Committee (2013-2014), Darzi Fellow in Medical Education (2014-2015) and President of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (2017-2018).
Recent publications
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Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health
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Ryland H. et al, (2022), Psychology, Crime & Law, 1 - 16
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Over 30 years of liaison and diversion in England and Wales: How far have we come, and what is now needed?
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Ryland H. et al, (2022), Medicine, Science and the Law, 62, 85 - 87
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Psychiatric training in perinatal mental health across Europe.
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Casanova Dias M. et al, (2022), Arch Womens Ment Health
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Advancing research in adult secure mental health services in England.
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Ryland H. et al, (2021), Med Sci Law
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Ten outcome measures in forensic mental health: A survey of clinician views on comprehensiveness, ease of use and relevance.
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Ryland H. et al, (2021), Crim Behav Ment Health