The Tizard Centre are delighted to announce further great news in what is fast becoming a seriously oustanding academic year for them. 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).
AcSS is the National Academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences. It has over 900 individual academicians who are distinguised scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors. They are awarded this status after a peer group has reviewed the standing and impact of their work. Prof Murphy was recognised for her work on intellectual and developemental disabilities.
Prof Murphy first joined the Tizard Centre in 1993. Following a brief spell at Lancaster University she returned to the Tizard and was appointed Co-Director in 2011. Her principal research interests are in the field of challenging behaviour and learning disabilities. Her current and recently completed studies include: the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for people 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.
She has held over £1 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 Health Research and the School for Social Care Research.
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. Prof Murphy won the MB Shapiro award in December 2013 for her contribution to clinical psychology. She is also one of the associate directors for SSCR.
In 2o13 she was appointed as Chair of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Challenging Behaviour in People with Learning Disabilities. These are the first guidelines on learning disabilities that NICE has begun.
Warm congratulations to Prof Murphy.