Brief profile
Roché Steyn has qualifications as indicated above. His doctoral work involved a number of key elements: an overview of forensic psychology; applications of malpractice law in the context of industrial psychology; an extensive examination of the existing and potential roles of health psychology in medical law and integrative medicine; clinical integrative medicine and preventive integrative medicine; and the role of law in current mainstream medicine and in the development of a more integrative mainstream medicine. In his thesis, the need for partnership between medicine and law (and relevant areas of psychology and management) is continually emphasised. In his various current endeavours, he continues to develop holistic, cutting-edge perspective on key interactions within and between medicine, psychology, law, and management. He can be contacted at rs@multiplin.com.


Further Background Information
Roché Steyn started his professional education at the University of Pretoria with simultaneous studies in law and psychology, integrating the requirements for undergraduate psychology with the requirements for undergraduate law. His aim was interdisciplinary study right from the start. His efforts earned him the BLC (Baccalaureus Legum Civilium) degree (with additional courses in psychology). During that time he started working (and then continued to work part-time) as a freelance consulting editor, notably editing a number of MBA dissertations as well as the Strategic Management Plan for the Gauteng Government Department of Welfare and Population Development. (One of the courses on which he currently teaches is "Professional English Skills".) Following his BLC, he embarked on a combination of the LLB degree and Honours degree in psychology, having been granted permission to complete these degrees simultaneously.

He then went on to combine studies in medical law (focusing on malpractice liability in clinical psychology and psychiatry) and management, completing his LLM degree (for the purpose of which he was awarded the Carmen Nathan Grant of the Unit for Medicine and Law of the University of Pretoria and Unisa to conduct research in the United States) and his Advanced Diploma in Project Management. The simultaneous completion of the LLM and the AdvDipPM allowed him to incorporate selected principles of project management into his LLM work (in the shape of HMM). He achieved distinctions in each of the requirements for the LLM (one of which was a single-session oral examination in medical law, criminal law and the law of delict with a panel of five distinguished professors, including Prof SA Strauss SC and Prof CR Snyman) and also obtained the AdvDipPM with distinction.

By the time of completing the aforementioned (2002), the development of Multiplin had already begun, and he had become involved in some consulting in South Africa. Upon arrival in the UK in 2003, he also started teaching part-time at the University of Leicester (where he taught medical law, tort law, and criminal law), while continuing his doctoral work on the interactions of law, medicine, psychology and management. He was selected on merit to receive the H Bradlow Scholarship (awarded by the University of South Africa, at which he had previously completed the Honours and LLM degrees) to support him in his doctoral research. In 2007, he was appointed as Principal Lecturer at Cranefield College (International MDL), having previously been involved as Associate Lecturer (and examiner). He continues to write, to teach and to consult in his interdisciplinary-specialist capacity. He has published a number of articles (including "Breach of Confidentiality and the Duty to Warn in Medical Law"and "Liability for Negligent Diagnosis and Treatment in Clinical Psychiatry") and and is currently completing work (with Christopher Woodrow) on a book on Malpractice Law, as well as DVDs in the HMM Essentials series.

He enjoys travelling, which has included various destinations in the UK and Ireland, Western and Eastern Europe, Zanzibar and Africa, Asia and Australia, and the USA; he values experiencing a variety of languages and cultures, and is passionate about wildlife and the natural environment. His leisure activities include snorkelling and scuba diving, skiing, and playing guitar and piano.