The Tizard Centre are delighted to announce further great news in what is fast becoming a seriously\u00a0oustanding academic\u00a0year for them.\u00a0 Following on from being awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, Prof Glynis Murphy is one of 28 social scientists to have been conferred the award of Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).<\/p>\n
AcSS is the National Academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences.\u00a0 It has over 900 individual academicians who are distinguised scholars\u00a0and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors.\u00a0\u00a0They are awarded this status after a peer group has reviewed the standing and impact\u00a0of their work.\u00a0 Prof Murphy was\u00a0recognised for\u00a0her work on intellectual and developemental\u00a0disabilities.<\/p>\n
Prof Murphy first joined the Tizard Centre in 1993.\u00a0 Following a brief spell at Lancaster University she returned to the Tizard and was appointed Co-Director in 2011.\u00a0 Her principal research interests are in the field of challenging behaviour and learning disabilities.\u00a0 Her current and recently completed studies include:\u00a0 the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for\u00a0people with learning disabilities who have committed sex offences; screening for people with learning disabilities in prison; the effectiveness of social care for ex-offenders with learning disabilities; and (with Dr Peter Langdon) the effectiveness of CBT for people with Asperger syndrome and social anxiety.<\/p>\n
She has held over \u00a31 million in grant funding from Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, Department of Health, Mental Health Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, British Institute of Learning Disabilities, Wellcome Trust, Bailey Thomas Fund, National Institute for\u00a0Health Research and the School for Social Care\u00a0Research.<\/p>\n
She is co-editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disablity, a fellow of the British Psychological Society and was President of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability between 2008 and 2012.\u00a0 Prof Murphy won the MB Shapiro award in December 2013 for her contribution to clinical psychology.\u00a0 She is also one of the associate directors for SSCR.<\/p>\n
In\u00a02o13 she was appointed as Chair of the NICE\u00a0Guideline Development Group for Challenging Behaviour in People with Learning Disabilities.\u00a0 These are the first guidelines on learning disabilities that NICE has begun.<\/p>\n
Warm congratulations to Prof Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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