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Andrew Carroll is a forensic psychiatrist and Director of Our Curious Minds, a training and consultancy company working in the mental health, psychosocial and legal sectors. In addition, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology.
He has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in both treatment and assessment roles in Victoria since the late 1990s. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, obtaining First Class Honours in Medical Sciences before reading Psychology to Masters level. He then trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford. After training in psychiatry in North Yorkshire, he completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. He then moved to Melbourne and worked at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) for some 25 years, undertaking a variety of roles in its hospital, community and prison services. He is an experienced expert witness in both criminal and civil matters. He has particular interest in how the effects of mental disorders, and their possible causal relationships to offending behaviour, are considered by the criminal courts at sentencing. He has co-authored a number of papers and book chapters on the role of mental health expert evidence in the criminal courts. Dr Carroll also has a role at the Victorian Department of Health as a Deputy Chief Psychiatrist (Forensic Mental Health). |