Ciarán James O'Keeffe is a British–Swiss chartered psychologist specialising in parapsychology and forensic psychology. Ciarán attended John Hampden Grammar School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He is currently employed at Bucks New University. He has held research associate position at the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail and the University of Paris, as well as an online tutor position at Derby University. Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in psychology with a parapsychology component, O'Keeffe is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and an advisor to The Ghost Club. According to his own website, he completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman and Julia Buckroyd.