Category: Tizard Centre

Help us to pilot a new questionnaire designed to measure the quality of life of people with learning disabilities or autism who use adult social … Read more

The next SPELL Framework Training is being held on the 3/4/5 July 2017 at the University of Kent, Canterbury campus.  Prof Julie Beadle-Brown will be … Read more

Gabor Petri, PhD student with the Tizard Centre, has just completed an interview for an independent Hungarian blog carried out with Dr Michelle McCarthy, covering … Read more

One of our post grad students and autistic self advocate, George Watts is trying to contact other autistic adults in Kent to ask if they … Read more

In this research project we wanted to hear directly from women with learning disabilities themselves about the domestic violence they had experienced. (We also explored … Read more

Monday 20 February 2017 – Prof Angela Hassiotis will be giving the Tizard lecture “Service level delivery of positive behaviour support: what does the evidence suggest?” … Read more

The Tizard Centre rounded up the year with their Centre Meeting today with plenty to discuss going forward but with also much to celebrate regarding … Read more

Prof Glynis Murphy presented the early results of the OFFSCA-ID research to Kent & Medway Partnership Trusts (November 2016). The project involved following up men with learning … Read more

A quick reminder to you all that ‘My feral heart” is showing this Saturday (10 Dec) at 15:00 hrs in the Gulbenkian cinema. A sudden … Read more

Melina Malli (PhD student) and Prof Rachel Forrester-Jones have recently published an article looking at the attitudes of adolescents towards their peers with Tourette’s syndrome … Read more