{"id":4352,"date":"2012-06-12T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=118"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:55:50","slug":"patricia-collen-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/06\/12\/patricia-collen-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Collen Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great pride that we announce that Dr Nick Gore has been awarded\u00a0 fellowship funding for a three year period from the Estate of <strong>Patricia Collen<\/strong>.\u00a0 Patricia lived the majority of her life within Normansfield Hospital, an institution for people with learning disabilities in the UK (now closed).\u00a0 In recognition of Patricia&#8217;s experiences, it was her family&#8217;s wish that funding from her Estate be used to develop early intervention initiatives to better support young people who have an intellectual disability and complex needs.<\/p>\n<p>Within the fellowship, Nick will be co-ordinating the <strong>Early-Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS) project.\u00a0<\/strong> The aim of E-PAtS is to identify and deliver the most effective ways of supporting children with learning or developmental disabilities and their families at a very early stage to help limit later difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>By providing specialised ongoing support during a child&#8217;s early years the project aims to help prevent\u00a0 the development of <strong>challenging behaviour<\/strong> and guard against its negative impact for children and families.\u00a0 Support provided will draw on best practice highlighted in the literature and from the experiences of professionals and family members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An integral part of the fellowship will be to ensure that lessons learned are embedded in systems and processes to ensure that progress is sustained, providing a lasting legacy\u00a0to Patricia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/06\/E-PAtS-Leaflet-July-2012.pdf\">E-PAtS Leaflet July 2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great pride that we announce that Dr Nick Gore has been awarded\u00a0 fellowship funding for a three year period from the Estate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/06\/12\/patricia-collen-fellowship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,43796],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}