Dr Alice Siberry is a Specialist Criminal Justice Neurodiversity Consultant and Academic Lead at Creased Puddle, bringing together research, practice, and policy to improve neuroinclusion across policing, criminal justice, and wider workplaces.
Professional Work
Alice is an experienced and fully qualified Level 3 trainer, delivering specialist training and consultancy to a wide range of organisations, including private and criminal justice partners.
As a Level 4 Neurodiversity Workplace Needs Assessor, she is highly experienced in managing complex and high-profile Workplace Needs Assessments, translating individual need into practical, evidence-informed adjustments and organisational recommendations.
She has also supported the development of practitioner-focused toolkits, which includes her work in developing the Ruth Strauss Foundation Responding in the Moment training, and she contributed as an academic consultant to applied projects such as the University of Sheffield Custody Project.
Alice has extensive experience across both the Criminal Justice and neurodiversity sectors, including work with North and West Yorkshire Police and the Independent Office of Police Conduct. She is also a former lecturer at the University of Sheffield and York St John University, working primarily with neurodivergent students.
Academic and Research Work
Alice received her PhD in Criminology and Law from the University of Sheffield in 2021. She also holds an MSc in Psychology and a first-class degree in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring.
She is a Research Affiliate with the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre and was awarded a Translational Fellowship in 2024, exploring Counter Terrorism practitioners’ perspectives on neurodivergent people and vulnerability to online algorithmic radicalisation.
Publications and Public Engagement
Alice is a contributing author to the Routledge edited volume Neurodivergence in Criminal Justice (2026) and has an upcoming publication in the journal Neurodiversity, titled Deconstructing Discourses on Neurodivergence and Extremism: Challenging Practitioner Perspectives on Risk, Bias and Online Vulnerability.
She regularly presents at international conferences, including Triple I (Internet Investigations and Intelligence). She also hosted on a Leeds International Festival of Ideas panel on neurodiversity in front of an audience of over 700 people, featuring contributors including Christine McGuinness and Ellie Middleton.
Her first book, Diversity, Difference or Disorder: Neurodiversity in British Policing, will be published in 2026.
