Applied research on psychological wellbeing and applying psychology to community health. Examples include: attitudes towards girls and women in sport; body image and female footballers; alcohol-related crime and street pastor schemes; cancer support services and the effects on client recovery; prevention of suicide in veterans; loneliness in the ageing community; youth mental health; resilience; and other topical issues.

Research in areas of psychological expertise has focused on criminal justice/forensic issues such as: the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders; information-processing of sexual material; Good Lives Model (GLM); sexually offending priests; offenders with addictions; the evaluation of addictions treatment programmes; polygraphs as an assessment tool; offender assessment; offender treatment and treatment efficacy; correctional officer stress; the Level of Service Inventory (LSI), the Correctional Program Assessment Inventory (CPAI), and the principles of Risk, Need and Responsivity (RNR).