Dr. Andrew Brankley is a clinical forensic psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University, where he directs the Sex and Violence Evaluation (SAVE) Lab. His research focuses on preventing harmful sexual behaviour and violence, with particular attention to how psychological risk factors are defined and measured.

He is the lead author of the STABLE-2007 and ACUTE-2007 workbooks and provides professional training in these tools and the Static risk assessment instruments. His work examines how assessment findings can inform decisions about treatment and supervision. He serves on the Research and Policy & Practice committees of the Society for the Advancement of Actuarial Risk Need Assessment (SAARNA) and is a former member of the ATSA Executive Board.

Dr. Brankley completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2019. Before joining York, he worked as a psychologist and research scientist in the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.