This year’s Seattle Club Conference took place in Cardiff at the Radisson Blu Hotel and was attended by a number of Academics from the Tizard Centre, as well as some of our PhD students. The key note presentation was given by Dr Pauline Heslop, from the Norah Fry Research Centre.
The Seattle Club conferences are open to any researcher based in the UK or Ireland who has new data relevant to the study of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Delegates carrying out research from behavioural and social sciences perspectives are welcomed, and delegates’ backgrounds have included psychology, psychiatry, sociology, special education, professions allied to medicine, and those with broad social sciences training. http://www.seattleclub.org.uk/ Each year the Seattle Club welcome new members/students as holders of the Seattle Club Studentships. These are people early in their research careers who do not yet have data to present.
The event also took the opportunity to celebrate David Felce’s 40 years in learning disability research.