Georgia Barnett

Dr. Georgia Barnett is a Chartered and HCPC-registered Forensic Psychologist with 25 years of experience in the UK criminal justice system. She spent 22 years working for His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), before co-founding Knowledge to Action (KTA Research and Consulting), where she delivers training and consultancy, and leads high-impact research and evaluation projects aimed at improving outcomes in criminal justice.

Georgia started work as a practitioner in prisons, conducting risk assessments and delivering, supervising, and managing interventions for men convicted of sexual and violent crimes. She went on to hold senior roles within HMPPS, including clinical lead for the core sexual offending treatment programme, and where she led national research on issues including reducing bias in decision making, identity change, brief psychological interventions, forensic risk assessment, and staff wellbeing. As an evidence-based practice lead in HMPPS headquarters, her work informed national policy, shaped rehabilitative practice, and contributed to the evidence base on effective interventions in prisons and probation settings.

She holds a PhD in Forensic Psychology and has published extensively on topics such as sexual offending, empathy, psychometric assessment development and validation, and intervention evaluation. Georgia is an Associate Member of the Correctional Services Advice and Accreditation Panel, a member of the Youth Custody Assurance Board, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Criminal Psychology, and Deputy Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology Committee,