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Dr Adam Flynn
SCHR member
Dr Adam Flynn is a dual-qualified psychiatrist and Admitted Solicitor serving as the Northern Ireland Representative to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Special Committee on Human Rights (SCHR). He is an ST6 Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry on an accelerated training pathway with a specialty endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry.
Blending clinical practice with advanced legal expertise, Dr Flynn operates at the interface of mental health jurisprudence, human rights law, and psychiatry. He represents the College on the regional Right Care Right Person (RCRP) Outcomes and Data Subgroup and the Mental Capacity Act (NI) Working Group. A former RCPsych National Leadership and Management Fellow, he has co-authored strategic policy analyses on coercion and international legal frameworks to directly shape regional legislative reform, including the Mental Health Order (NI) 1986 Draft Code of Practice.
Dr Flynn maintains a high-impact academic profile with an extensive publication record, including multiple solo-authored pieces in The British Journal of Psychiatry and BJPsych Bulletin, bridging structural clinical analysis, psychoanalytic theory, and the medical humanities. His work on service design and clinical governance has been widely peer-reviewed and disseminated internationally at major forums in London, Prague, Oslo, and Liverpool. He has a special interest in the work of the negative and the theories of André Green.
His current focus is on advocating for justiciable rights for mental health patients within the European framework.