Roxanne Khan

Roxanne Khan, PhD is an Honorary Professor of Psychology, Crime and Justice at Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Chartered Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist with the British Psychological Society. She is Founding Director of the Honour Abuse Research Matrix (HARM) at onEvidence, the first international network dedicated to advancing research, policy, and practice on honour‑based abuse.

Roxanne is author of The Psychology of Honour Abuse, Violence and Killings (Routledge, 2024), which introduces the Three‑Phase Model of Perpetration, and has informed national studies including the UK Home Office Perpetrator Studies, and the UK's largest regional study of honour abuse, forced marriage and FGM in Greater Manchester.

Her contributions have been recognised with the British Psychological Society (BPS) Book of the Year Award (2025), the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology Excellence in Research Award (2025), and shortlisting for the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year (2022). She has also received the True Honour Award from IKWRO. As course leader, her Forensic Psychology programme was ranked top in the UK for overall satisfaction in 2022. She is Co‑Editor of the Routledge forensic psychology book series New Frontiers in Forensic Psychology with Professor Graham Towl.