Category: Tizard Centre

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

In July 2012, a number of the Tizard team travelled out to attend the World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of … Read more

We are delighted to announce that following the sad and untimely death of Prof Jim Mansell, a large number of friends, relatives, and colleagues as … Read more

During the recent paralympics, Gillian Ziegner, MA Autism Studies (Distance Learning)  gave a lecture to the German Behinderten-Sportverbrand (Association of Sport for the Disabled) and … Read more