Dr Ruth Bagshaw

• Forensic psychology
• clinical psychology
• individual differences
• research methods and statistics
• contemporary issues in psychology

• Fitzgerald, S, Gray, N S, Alexander, R. T., Bagshaw R. Et all (2013) Predicting institutional violence in offenders with intellectual disabilities: The predictive efficacy of the VRAG and HCR 20. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 26(5), 384-393
• Bagshaw, R., Gray, N.S., Snowden, R. J., (2014) Executive function in psychopathy: The tower of London, Brixton Spatial Anticipation and the Hayling Sentence Completion tests. Psychiatry Research, 220 (1-2), 483-489
• Sullivan, J., Bagshaw, R., Rees, S., Woods, E., (2013) Flexible observations in the management of self harm. Mental Health Practice, 16(10)
• Bagshaw, R., Lewis, R., Watt, A., (2012) Attachment theory-based approaches to treatment and problem behaviour in a medium secure hospital: effects of staff gender on ratings, The Journal of Mental Health Education and Practice, 7(4), 189-199
• Bonniwell, N., Etheridge, L., Bagshaw, R., Sullivan, J., (2015), Mental health nurses perceptions of attachment styles as a construct in a medium secure hospital: a thematic analysis. The Journal of Mental Health Education and Practice, 10(4), 218-233
• Walsh, J., Davies, J., Bagshaw, R., et all (2012) Staff beliefs about the negotiation of serious prison incidents. Criminal Justice and Behaviour, 39(1), 59-70
• Lawrence, D., Davies, T-L., Bagshaw, R, et al (2018) External validity and anchoring heuristics: an application of DUNDRUM-1 to secure service gatekeeping in South Wales. British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin, 42(1), 10-18.

Ruth is a HCPC registered clinical and forensic psychologist. She spent 30 years working in the NHS in a variety of clinical settings in Wales, 20 years of which were spent working in adult forensic mental health. She was the lead consultant psychologist in a medium secure hospital where she also acted as a non-medical Approved Clinician under the Mental Health Act (1983 as amended 2007). She has extensive experience as an expert witness, predominantly in criminal cases.

Ruth's research interests lie broadly in understanding practice in relation to service improvement in mental health care, and psychopathy, personality and neuropsychology.

Ruth is currently involved in supervising three PhD projects on clinical and offending outcomes for patients discharged from medium secure care, psychological mechanisms involved in weight gain amongst secure mental health inpatients, and proactive and reactive control in secure mental health inpatients.