Dr Roxanne Khan
Director, Honour Abuse Research Matrix (HARM), Course Leader, BSc Forensic Psychology
School of Psychology and Humanities
Dr Khan is our course leader for BSc Forensic Psychology. She is a multi-award-winning researcher, lecturer, and Director of Honour Abuse Research Matrix (HARM); an international multiagency network using innovation to reform domestic abuse policy and practice. If you would like to do a PhD or MSc with Dr Khan, please contact her directly.
Outside of the University, Dr Khan is an independent Domestic Homicide Review Chair and Report Author. She works with Safer Community Partnerships and is responsible for managing and coordinating the review process as well as producing the final overview report for the Home Office.
She is also an Academic Partner for Lancashire Partnership Against Domestic Abuse. They are a multi-agency steering group based at Lancashire Constabulary HQ, and Expert Advisor and Research Ethics Committee Reviewer, Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, a multi-disciplinary team, funded by the Home Office and hosted by Barnardo’s.
Dr Khan has two decades’ experience of working with forensic clients and patients within the community, prison settings, and/or high-security hospitals. This has included individual therapy and group-based psychological interventions, as well as individually-tailored interventions and awareness programmes.
- PgCert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, UCLan, 2009
- PhD, Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2005
- MSc, Forensic (Legal and Criminological) Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2000
- BSc (Hons), Psychology and Sociology with Applied Social Policy, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, 1999
- Times Higher Education Award: Shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Domestic Abuse Guidance for UK Universities, 2022
- True Honour Award: Special Recognition Academic Contribution to End ‘Honour’ Based Abuse, 2021
- Times Higher Education Award: Internally shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Harmful Traditional Practices in the Workplace, 2021
- Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence: Recipient of award ‘Highly Commended’ for HBV in a British South Asian community, 2019
- 'Honour'-Based Abuse, including Forced Marriage and FGM
- Family and Community Violence and Aggression
- Domestic Abuse and Homicide
- Sexual Coercion and Exploitation
- Chartered Member, British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Associate Fellow, BPS
- Full Member, Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (HEA)
- Chartered Scientist, BPS
- Independent Domestic Homicide Review Chair and Report Author, Safer Community Partnerships
- Expert Advisor and Research Ethics Committee Reviewer, Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, Barnardo’s
- Academic Lead, Forced Marriage, ‘Honour’ Based Abuse and FGM Steering Group, Lancashire Partnership against Domestic Abuse
Dr Khan is a globally recognised expert in violence and aggression, specialising in domestic abuse and, more specifically, honour-based abuse and killings, and forced marriage. She has presented her research evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee, at the House of Commons, and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. Dr Khan was also invited to the House of Lords to present her research at an event hosted by Baroness Sandip Verma.
Use the links below to view their profiles:
- Researchgate
- View their unique and persistent identifier on the ORCiD registry
- Full list of publications and articles on CLoK
- Google Scholar
- Honour Abuse Research Matrix (HARM)
- Centre for Criminal Justice Research & Partnerships
- Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE)
- Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities
- Harmful Traditional Practices in the Workplace: Guidance for Best Practice
- Evaluation of Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities. Funded by Research England (Quality Related-Strategic Priorities Funding), £7,800, 2023
- Antiracism training and explainer video. Funded by Global Race Centre for Equality, UCLan, £15,500, 2022
- Domestic Homicide Review, Independent Chair and Author, funded by Somerset Community Safety Partnership, 2022
- Making the Invisible, Visible: Enhancing Opportunities for Black, Asian and Other Minority Ethnic Students, funded Enhancing our Research Culture Funding, UCLan, £20,000, 2023
- County Lines and the Criminal Exploitation of UK University Students, funded by Centre for Criminal Justice Research and Partnership’s Pump Priming fund, 2021
- Domestic Homicide Review, Independent Chair and Author, funded by Safer Leicester Partnership, 2021
- Evaluation of Support Our Sisters (SOS) Project: FGM specialist psychosocial service, funded by NHS CCG, 2021
- Psychological Assessment and Report Author, funded by Islington Law Centre, 2021
- Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities, funded by Research England (Quality Related-Strategic Priorities Funding), £14,225, 2020
- Harmful traditional practices: Guidance for best practice, funded by Research England (Quality Related-Strategic Priorities Funding), £11,776, 2019
- Assessing vulnerable victims, funded by EU Commission, Directorate-General-Justice, €280,590, 2013
- Khan, R. (2024). INVITED KEYNOTE with Sir Paul Grice. Annual Conference of Equity in Education & Society. York St John University, York, 31 January
- Khan, R. (2024). INVITED KEYNOTE. International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE), UCLan. Preston, 3 - 7 June
- Khan, R. (2023). INVITED KEYNOTE. Practice alone does not make perfect. Annual Conference of Division of Forensic Psychology, The British Psychological Society. Belfast, 8 - 10 December
- Khan, R. (2023). INVITED GUEST LECTURE. Breaking Frontiers in Psychology: Honour Abuse, Violence, and Killings. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, 5 October
- Khan, R. (2023). INVITED KEYNOTE. EDI in Safeguarding is Everybody’s Business. Annual Conference of Equity in Education & Society. London South Bank University, London, 29 June
- Khan, R. (2023). INVITED KEYNOTE. Honour-Based Abuse Research: The Next Steps. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, 25 January
- Khan, R. (2022). INVITED KEYNOTE. Exposing Honour Based Abuse. Safeguarding Adults: It’s Everybody’s Business. Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, 24 November
- Khan, R. (2022). OPENING KEYNOTE. Building Cultures of Care and Accountability in Higher Ed. Global Student Conduct Webinar, Orbis, Canada, 25 May
- Khan, R. (2022). INVITED KEYNOTE. Qualitative research Methods in Victimology Research. Conference on Domestic Abuse: Understanding the Intersectionality between Gender and Ethnicity. University of East Anglia, Norwich, 25 April
- Khan, R. (2022). INVITED KEYNOTE. Criminal Justice Reponses to Harmful Practices. Crown Prosecution Service National Conference. Virtual, 9 February
- Khan, R. (2022). INVITED KEYNOTE. Race, Space, and Justice. Criminal Justice Partnership. Virtual, 16 March
- Khan, R. (2021). INVITED SPEAKER. Race, Gender, and Identity. Annual Conference of Equity in Education, Educational Equity Services. Virtual, 14 July
- Khan, R. (2021). INVITED KEYNOTE. Protecting women who are victims of domestic violence. International Women’s Week. ASB Resolve and Criminal Justice Partnership. Virtual, 16 June
- Khan, R. (2021). INVITED SPEAKER with Nicole Jacobs (Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales). Tackling harassment. Annual Conference of Universities UK. Virtual 11 March
- Khan, R. (2021). INVITED SPEAKER with Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, Professor Liz Kelly, Centre for Child and Women Abuse Studies (CWASU). Key issues, experiences, and action points for Black, Asian, and minoritised communities - the collective voice of a dynamic network. Collective Efficacy, Community Safety and Domestic Abuse during and after C19. University of Suffolk. Virtual, 9 March.
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