Professor David Cooke

Adjunct Professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand

David Cooke is a Chartered Psychologist based in the United Kingdom. As a practising forensic clinical psychologist, his research has always had an applied as well as a theoretical orientation. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He is the co-author of PRISM, an evidence-based process for the understanding of the violence in prison and other secure settings. David was head of Forensic Clinical Psychology services for Glasgow (1984-2007). He was Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University (1992-2016; part-time). David has held positions as adjunct professor in the UK, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. David was President of the European Association of Psychology and Law between 2009-2012.
David has been a fellow of the British Psychological Society since 1986 and in 2004 was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh – Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters. In 2006 he received the Senior Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Forensic Psychology from the Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society. In 2012 he received the Doctor of the University degree from the Armenian State University and the David the Invincible Medal from the Armenian Philosophical Academy. In 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Association of Psychology and Law. David has provided workshops on institutional violence, violence risk assessment and psychopathic personality disorder in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, North America, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Armenia and the Caribbean.