Dr Bryce Stoliker is a Research Associate with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science and Justice Studies (Forensic Centre), as well as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, based at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He completed his PhD in Criminology at Simon Fraser University, focused primarily on advancing sociological understandings of suicidal thinking and non-fatal suicidal behaviour using a nationally representative sample of adults in custody in the United States. Following his PhD training in 2020, Dr Stoliker completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Forensic Centre, which primarily explored suicidal and self-harm thoughts and behaviour among correctional and psychiatric inpatient populations.

Through his roles at the Forensic Centre, Dr Stoliker has been involved in various research and evaluation projects undertaken for and in collaboration with community and government partners tasked with assessing criminal justice processes, programs, and services for justice-involved individuals in Saskatchewan, Canada. His program of research focuses broadly on the correctional system and, specifically, on the (mental) health and well-being of people in custody. As an early-career academic, he has roughly 10 years of experience in corrections research and has published extensively on the topic of suicide and self-harm among custodial populations, as well as the topic of older people in custody. Related to the latter, he has helped lead a multi-phased project focused on the assessment and diagnosis of dementia among a federally sentenced forensic psychiatric population—the first of its kind in Canada. As a lecturer, Dr Stoliker has taught several sociology and criminology courses, but largely focuses on quantitative research methods and statistics.