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Dr Kelly Howard is a clinical psychologist, based in Auckland, who works for the Waitemata District Health Board. Dr Howard's doctoral research was on communication assistance in the New Zealand youth jurisdiction. One of the issues raised by her research was the difficulties that arise in practice for defendants who may trigger both unfitness to stand trial and communication assistance enquiries. While the focus of her research was on the youth jurisdiction, many participants worked across the youth and adult jurisdictions and noted that the same practice issues arise in both. In 2019, Dr Howard won the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology PhD Student Paper Award for her then unpublished article on this topic. Dr Howard has held previous roles in the New Zealand criminal justice system, including as a criminal lawyer and as a facilitator of group based rehabilitation programmes.