Randy Borum is a professor and coordinator of strategy and intelligence studies in the school of information at the University of South Florida and has taught at USF since 1999.
He was a postdoctoral fellow in forensic psychology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Law-Psychiatry program in 1993.
He then returned to law enforcement and was a police instructor for the Brevard County Law Enforcement Academy and with the Palm Bay Police Department in Palm Bay, Florida, while he worked on his practica at Florida Institute of Technology.
Following that he was chief psychologist and forensic coordinator for John Umstead Hospital, Adult Admissions Unit in Butner, North Carolina, and then a research fellow for the UNC-Duke Post-doctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services and Systems Research.
[4] In 1996 Borum earned the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Contributions to Practice in Psychology and Law.