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Grant conducted his Honours degree in Psychology in England and received a Masters of Clinical Psychology and a PhD from the University of Queensland. He has worked predominantly with neuroses at the Institute of Psychiatry (England), as a senior psychologist at a Queensland psychiatric hospital, and is a practicing clinician. He has
been invited to present both nationally and internationally on the topic of PTSD and is a recognised expert on
psychological aspects of intervening with victims of crime.
He has acted as an advisor to the Victorian Department of Justice and advised the Victorian
Parliamentary Review into victim services and another enquiry into so called ‘Recovered Memory Therapy’. He has been invited to present
both nationally and internationally on the topic of PTSD, and in particular on psychological aspects of intervening with victims of crime, disaster and war. Most recently he was on the scientific working party which
developed the Australian Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder.
Grant is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Brain Sciences Institute in Swinburne University. He has developed,
and is director of, the Clinical & Forensic Psychology Research Unit within the Institute and is supervising PhD,
Masters and Honours students who have an interest in this specialty. This includes projects working with the
police, management organisations.
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