Newcastle University

Professor Grubin holds the Chair in Forensic Psychiatry within the Faculty of Medical Sciences and is an honorary consultant forensic psychiatrist in Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.  He has an international reputation in relation to the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders, and he has published widely in respect of a number of areas of forensic psychiatry. 

Background

Professor Grubin received his undergraduate education at Oriel College, Oxford University, graduating with a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology.  He received his medical degree from Kings College Hospital, London University.  He trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, and the Maudsley and Broadmoor Hospitals.  He obtained his MRCPsych in 1989, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2004.  He was appointed to a Senior Lectureship in Newcastle in 1994, and to the chair in Forensic Psychiatry in 1997.

Roles and Responsibilities

Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Board Member, Independent Safeguarding Authority

Board Member, Scottish Risk Management Authority

Panel Member, Ministry of Justice Correctional Services Accreditation Panel

Member of the Northumbria MAPPA Strategic Management Board

Qualifications

MA (Oxon)
MB BS
MD
FRCPsych

Research Interests

My research interests cover a range of forensic psychiatric issues, but my primary activity in recent years has related to the assessment and treatment of sex offenders, and to prison health screening. In terms of the former, I have been looking closely at polygraphy, and its potential role in the assessment, treatment and management of offenders. Regarding the latter, my team and I have been responsible for the redesign of health screening procedures in the remand prisons of England and Wales, and we are now involved in an evaluation of health screening in police custody.

Other Expertise

I am a consultant to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) sex offender treatment programmes in prison and probation.  I am particularly involved in the facilitation of prescribing medication for sex offenders. 

• McKinnon I, Grubin D. Health screening in police custody. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 2010, 17(4), 209-212.
• Grubin D. The Polygraph and Forensic Psychiatry. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2010, 38(4), 446-451.
• Grubin D. The case for polygraph testing of sex offenders. Legal and Criminological Psychology 2008, 13(2), 177-189.
• Grubin D, Joyce A. Polygraph testing of offenders arested for downloading indecent images of children: Impact on risk assessment. 2013. In Preparation.
• McKinnon IG, Grubin D. Screening for psychiatric morbidity in police custody. Results from the HELP-PC project. 2013. Submitted.
• McKinnon IG, Grubin D. Health screening of people in police custody - evaluation of current police screening procedures in London, UK. European Journal of Public Health 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Grubin D. L’utilisation de médicaments pour traiter de la délinquance sexuelle [The use of medication in the treatment of sex offenders]. Actualité Juridique Pénal 2012, (12), 622-626.
• Stockdale M, Grubin D. The admissibility of polygraph evidence in English criminal proceedings. Journal of Criminal Law 2012, 76(3), 232-253.
• Grubin D. A Large-Scale Evaluation of Risk Matrix 2000 in Scotland. Sexual Abuse 2011, 23(4), 419-433.
• Reiss D, Leese M, Meux C, Grubin D. Casenote assessment of psychopathy in a high security hospital. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 2001, 11(1), 27-37.
• Grubin D, Parsons S, Walker L. Mental Health Screening in Female Remand Prisoners. National Programme on Forensic Mental Health, 2000.
• Reiss D, Grubin D, Meux C. Institutional performance of male 'psychopaths' in a high-security hospital. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 1999, 10(2), 290-299.