Dr Howard Ryland is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust where he is currently working in the prison service at HMP Gendon and HMP Spring Hill. He is also a Senior Clinical Research Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and with the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. 

He holds an NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award. 

Dr Ryland completed his DPhil at Oxford in the Department of Psychiatry in 2021, focused on understanding which outcomes are important for patients and clinicians in forensic mental health services, which was used to develop a new outcome measure for forensic mental health services called the Forensic Outcome Measure (FORUM).