Conference Programme

Keynote Speaker

Professor Tony Ward has been announced as one of the keynote speakers at the NOTA 2027 International Conference. Professor Ward is one of the world's most influential forensic psychologists and the creator of the internationally renowned Good Lives Model, which has transformed approaches to rehabilitation and offender reintegration across the globe, widely regarded as a leading voice in forensic psychology and rehabilitation.

Professor Tony Ward of Wellington University, New Zealand,

is a globally respected scholar whose pioneering contributions and enduring influence on psychology and criminology have helped shape thinking and practice across generations of researchers and

practitioners. He has published over 500 chapters, articles, books, and other scholarly works in the areas of sexual offending and general ehabilitation and practice, including the Self‐Regulation Model of Sexual Offending  (Ward & Hudson, 2000), the adaptation of the concept of Implicit Theories to sexual offending  (Ward & Keenan, 1999), the Good Lives Model of Rehabilitation  (Ward et al, 2025), the analysis and reformulation of dynamic risk and protective factors (Ward & Fortune, 2027), and the Integrated Theory of Sexual Offending  (Ward & Beech, 2016).

The full NOTA Conference 2027 programme will be available shortly.

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