About

Dr Nathan Brooks is a Forensic Psychologist and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with Central Queensland University. He has broad experience pertaining to risk and threat assessment, along with having worked in both the private and public sectors. His recent work has focused primarily on high-risk and high-harm matters, particularly in respect to personality and behavioural risk indicators. He has completed hundreds of assessments at the request of courts, government agencies, health services, and independent lawyers. In addition to this, Nathan has provided consultancy on security matters and a variety of threat situations and events. He also provided consultation and expertise to several serious and major crime investigations.

 

Nathan has conducted lectures and workshops on leading matters in the field, delivering these services nationally and internationally. He has produced a variety of peer-reviewed articles and publications on a range of topics, including lone actor violence, psychopathic personality, personality disorders, criminal profiling, cold case investigations, targeted violence, investigative practices, grievance-fuelled violence, stalking, and emotional and social processing. He is also the joint editor of a book focusing on psychopathic personality within the workplace and has provided consultancy to Fortune 500 companies on the assessment and management of problematic personalities. 

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Dr Brooks is advocate for promoting psychology in the criminal justice system, believing that the application of psychological principles is central to understanding offending behaviour. 

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His work is often featured on television, radio, in print and online.