Rate My Professor Oliver Hansby

Hansby co-convened the Stage II Formal Education Programme for psychiatry registrars in 2020 and 2021 alongside Associate Professor Susanna Every-Palmer, developing a detailed curriculum with interactive lectures, tutorials, trainee presentations, and Moodle resources. He emphasized active learning, pre-session knowledge assessments, diverse teaching methods, and systematic feedback collection, earning high praise from trainees for programme organization and quality, including the Māori mental health module. His research specializations include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in forensic, prison, and rehabilitation settings for adults with psychosis or serious mental illness; harassment, stalking, and gendered abuse towards politicians; and resourcing challenges in New Zealand mental health services. Key publications co-authored by Hansby encompass the 2019 Trials protocol for an EMDR randomized controlled trial (RCT) in forensic services; the 2023 European Journal of Psychotraumatology qualitative study on EMDR lived experiences in prison; the 2024 Psychological Trauma RCT outcomes comparing EMDR to usual treatment; the 2024 Frontiers in Psychiatry analysis of politician harassment during COVID-19; the 2024 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry survey of 500 psychiatrists; the 2025 Kōtuitui study on misogyny and threats to female politicians; and the 2025 Medicine, Science and the Law RCT on EMDR in forensic and prison contexts. His eight publications have garnered 86 citations.