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  The Tizard Centre is currently looking to recruit a Lecturer in Learning Disability.  The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to contribute to teaching and research in intellectual and developmental disabilities. Candidates with a relevant professional background … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre are holding a cake sale in support of the National Autistic Society on Wednesday 30th January 2013 1200-14oohrs in the new building by the side of the Tizard Centre, Woodlands, Giles Lane.  There will be a selection … Continue reading →

Trystan Williams, Principal at Springfield Academy, recently took 10 pupils with behavioural problems including ADHD and Autism on a 100 mile trek through Tanzania – his goal to prove that against all odds the most vulnerable children can truely succeed.  The … Continue reading →

Staff at the University of Kent’s Tizard Centre and School of Psychology have come together in the hope of developing an official database of willing participants with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the local area.  The need for this platform … Continue reading →

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.  IASSID is the world’s largest international association … Continue reading →

During the recent paralympics, Gillian Ziegner, MA Autism Studies (Distance Learning)  gave a lecture to the German Behinderten-Sportverbrand (Association of Sport for the Disabled) and disabled atheletes from Germany “Inclusive Education in England: present reality or utopian dream?”  This outlined … Continue reading →

Dr Julie Beadle-Brown has been appointed Professor in Disability Studies on a part-time basis in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University, Melbourne.  Julie has been Adjunct Associate Professor at La Trobe since 201o, travelling … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work with Peter McGill and colleagues on an NIHR School of Social Care Research (SSCR) funded study, investigating the prevention of challenging behaviour of adults with complex needs in … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that a new prize has been established at the University in memory of the late Edward Newell, who sadly died in 2010 at the age of 36. The £100 prize will be awarded annually to a student, … Continue reading →

Following the dreadful abuse of people with a learning disability at Winterbourne View last year an interim report has been prepared.  Viv Cooper, Chief Executive of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation,  is urging all of those effected by such issues to … Continue reading →