{"id":4362,"date":"2012-10-04T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:55:49","slug":"iassid-2012-halifax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/10\/04\/iassid-2012-halifax\/","title":{"rendered":"IASSID 2012 Halifax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID), held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.\u00a0 IASSID is the world&#8217;s largest international association of researchers in intellectual disabilities and Professor Murphy (Tizard) has been the President of IASSID for the past 4 years.\u00a0 She has worked with Vianne Timmons and the other members of the IASSID executive to organise this World Congress, attended by about 800 people from all over the world.\u00a0 The Congress was very successful with over 600 papers being presented from around the World and more than a dozen plenary speakers, one of whom was Dr Michelle McCarthy from the Tizard Centre.\u00a0 Other Tizard staff and PhD students presenting papers included Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones, Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Amanda Bates, and Vivi Triantafyllopoulou.\u00a0 The abstracts for the Congress (over 600 of them) were published in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.\u00a0 At the end of the World Congress, Prof Murphy received a standing ovation from delegates, as she handed over the Presidency to Prof Vianne Timmons of Canada.\u00a0 The net result was a very thought provoking Congress for researchers in the field of intellectual disabilities.\u00a0 For more information see:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iassid.org\/\">https:\/\/www.iassid.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/10\/GM_IASSID2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/10\/GM_IASSID2-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Glynis Murphy at the Conference\" width=\"499\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/10\/04\/iassid-2012-halifax\/\">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\/4362"}],"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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}