Category: Tizard Centre

Last week, Prof Murphy travelled to Portland in Oregon, USA, to give an invited plenary presentation on ‘ Autism and the Criminal Justice System’. The … Read more

  The Tizard Centre is currently looking to recruit a Lecturer in Learning Disability.  The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to contribute … Read more

The Tizard Centre are holding a cake sale in support of the National Autistic Society on Wednesday 30th January 2013 1200-14oohrs in the new building … Read more

In the first week of December, Prof Murphy spent 4 days training psychology staff in Wakefield and Wynott prisons, alongside FPLD staff, to deliver a … Read more

Six members of the Tizard team travelled to the Seattle Club Conference, for young researchers in learning disabilities, in Kendal in December, with Prof Glynis Murphy … Read more

Trystan Williams, Principal at Springfield Academy, recently took 10 pupils with behavioural problems including ADHD and Autism on a 100 mile trek through Tanzania – his … Read more

The government has  published its final report into the events at Winterbourne View Hospital and has set out a programme of action to transform services … Read more

Dr Frank Keating, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Holloway University, London, will be giving the third in our series of Seminars.   “Black and minority ethnic (BME) … Read more

Dr Michelle McCarthy, Senior Lecturer at the Tizard Centre, has been granted funding by the School for Social Care Research (part of the National Institute … Read more

Staff at the University of Kent’s Tizard Centre and School of Psychology have come together in the hope of developing an official database of willing … Read more