Researchers have teamed up a disability charity to produce a DVD to help improve support for people with learning disabilities. Research into people with learning … Read more

The Tizard Centre are seeking to appoint a full time Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability on an on-going basis.  The main responsibility of the … Read more

The University has a number of ways of recognising the outstanding performance and contribution of its staff, this year the School is pleased to announce … Read more

The Home Secretary has appointed Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The ACMD is … Read more

The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent has been awarded the Skillsmark ‘seal of approval’ for its BA … Read more

We are pleased to announce that we have been able to extend the deadline for applications for the NCVO Scholarship to 28 July 2014. The scholarship, … Read more

A number of Tizard staff and PhD students have successfully submitted abstracts and several will also be giving presentations of their research  at the IASSIDD Conference … Read more

The Centre for Child Protection has won the Social Sciences Faculty Teaching Prize 2014. Many congratulations to the team for this achievement! More information…  

Year after year, when the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey is released, newspaper headlines tell us of how our attitudes to benefits have hardened, feeding … Read more

Project advisors, Colin Guest (MCCH) and Lisa Richardson (Tizard Centre)  attended a Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice on Wednesday 18th June.  As … Read more