Research Interests

My current research interests are in deliberate firesetting, mental health and offending. Specifically, I am interested in the thoughts, feelings, and events that proceed an event of deliberate firesetting and the treatment of firesetters. My current research aims to develop the first offence process model of firesetting in mentally disordered offenders. This offence process model will describe the sequence of factors leading up to and surrounding firesetting for mentally disordered offenders and will be used to identify the different pathways that offenders may proceed through to setting a fire and their associated treatment needs. In addition this, I am also involved in the evaluation of a specific treatment programme for mentally disordered firesetters.

Thesis Title

An Evaluation of Mentally Disordered Firesetters.

Supervisor

Dr Theresa Gannon

Funding

School of Psychology, University of Kent

Publications

Gannon, T.A., Tyler, N., Barnoux, M., & Pina, A. (in press). Female Arsonists and Firesetters. In Dickens, G., Sugarman, P., & Gannon, T.A. (eds). Arson and mental health: Theory, research and practice. RCPsych Pubs.

Tyler, N., & Gannon, T.A. (in press). Explanations of firesetting in mentally disordered offenders: A review of the literature. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.

Conference Presentations

Tyler, N., Gannon, T.A., Lockerbie, L., King, T., & Dickens, G. (2011, June). The development of an offence process model of firesetting in mentally disordered offenders. In N. Tyler (Chair), Adult Firesetters. Symposium conducted at the 20th Annual Conference of the Division of Forensic Psychology. Portsmouth, UK.

Teaching Commitments

SP500 Psychology Statistics and Practical
Year 2 int 14

School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NP
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1227 827821
Fax. +44 (0)1227 827030
Email: Nichola Tyler

Office: Olive Cottages 2.08