Sarah Kilbane

Dr Sarah Kilbane is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, affiliated with the School of Law and Criminology within the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Liverpool (2015), an MSc in Forensic Psychology from the University of Surrey, and earlier degrees in BA, BSc, and PGCert. Her research focuses on forensic mental health, malicious contamination crimes (e.g., poisoning, product tampering), altruistic fear, terrorism, and the psychological underpinnings of criminal behavior.

Teaching responsibilities include courses on forensic psychology, criminology, quantitative research methods, forensic mental health, and the psychology of terrorism. Her work bridges academic research and practical applications in threat assessment, legal frameworks for mental health patients, and stigma reduction through language use.

Key research themes include defining malicious contamination crimes, analyzing perpetrator behavior in contamination incidents, and evaluating policy implications of conditional discharge for mental health patients.