Dr Ed Mitchell

Stipendiary lecturer in Medicine; Educational supervisor, Oxford University Medical School; Consultant forensic psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

I’m a forensic psychiatrist working in secure units and prisons, principally HMP Bullingdon.

I tutor psychology for medicine (second year undergraduate course) I’m the educational supervisor for fourth year clinical students (second year graduate entry medics), and I tutor 5th year medical students on their psychiatry rotation.

I have a particular interest in student mental health; I advise the college on how Pembroke can create the best environment for students and staff to enjoy the best possible mental health whilst at Pembroke.

I studied medicine at Pembroke myself on the four year graduate entry course (2004-8) (and my first degree in experimental psychology was also at Pembroke!). I studied a MPhil and PhD in criminology (University of Cambridge), and was a Fulbright visiting research fellow at Harvard Medical School (1999-2000). After my medical degree I did my foundation doctor jobs in medicine, surgery, clinical immunology, A&E, and GP, followed by three years core training in psychiatry and a further three years specialist training in forensic psychiatry.

My research interests are in criminal responsibility and the assessment of violence risk in psychiatric patients. In particular I’m interested in how the criminal law takes into account a person’s culpability for bringing about the conditions of their own defence (e.g. automatism, intoxication, duress, insanity), and how this affects the disposal of defendants (e.g. to prison or to hospital).

I am also interested in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning (ML) to predict violent offences in patients who suffer from serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and other psychoses.

Dr Ed Mitchell

Stipendiary lecturer in Medicine; Educational supervisor, Oxford University Medical School; Consultant forensic psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

I’m a forensic psychiatrist working in secure units and prisons, principally HMP Bullingdon.

I tutor psychology for medicine (second year undergraduate course) I’m the educational supervisor for fourth year clinical students (second year graduate entry medics), and I tutor 5th year medical students on their psychiatry rotation.

I have a particular interest in student mental health; I advise the college on how Pembroke can create the best environment for students and staff to enjoy the best possible mental health whilst at Pembroke.

I studied medicine at Pembroke myself on the four year graduate entry course (2004-8) (and my first degree in experimental psychology was also at Pembroke!). I studied a MPhil and PhD in criminology (University of Cambridge), and was a Fulbright visiting research fellow at Harvard Medical School (1999-2000). After my medical degree I did my foundation doctor jobs in medicine, surgery, clinical immunology, A&E, and GP, followed by three years core training in psychiatry and a further three years specialist training in forensic psychiatry.

My research interests are in criminal responsibility and the assessment of violence risk in psychiatric patients. In particular I’m interested in how the criminal law takes into account a person’s culpability for bringing about the conditions of their own defence (e.g. automatism, intoxication, duress, insanity), and how this affects the disposal of defendants (e.g. to prison or to hospital).

I am also interested in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning (ML) to predict violent offences in patients who suffer from serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and other psychoses.