Category Archives: Tizard

Several of our members of staff and students will be attending this year’s Seattle Club Conference being held at Cardiff University 10 – 11 December 2015.  The event is open to any researcher based in the UK or Ireland who … Continue reading →

Dr Peter Baker, Senior Lecturer at the Tizard Centre, has raised over £700 for the CBF this summer taking place in the Prudential London to Surrey bike ride; a 100 mile route with some very testing climbs and stunning countryside. … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that one of our PhD students, Marica Gatt has secured a place in the PRATO scholarships in Prato Italy July 2016.  These workshops are designed to support and facilitate publication by enhancing postgraduate writing skills.  The … Continue reading →

“Mothers’ Views of the Communication Skills of Maltese Children who use AAC”.  Marica Gatt is a PhD student at the Tizard Centre as well as being Head of Department for Literacy (Ministry of Education, Malta) and a part-time lecturer at the University … Continue reading →

“Uncovering the staff culture of good quality supported accommodation for people with intellectual disabilities” This research study is funded by the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) and is being carried out by Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Dr Jill Bradshaw and … Continue reading →

One of our PhD students, Hannah Newman, is looking is looking to recruit children who have been through a diagnostic assessment for autism in the past 12 months, to take part in a study looking at how assessing children in … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre, University of Kent offers additional scholarships and bursaries for students studying in the areas of applied psychology, community care, intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health, please see our web pages for full details Applications are welcome for 2016 … Continue reading →

The Jigsaw project (mcch) are continuing to implement recommendations made by the Living in Fear research group (Autism London, mcch, Tizard Centre and Kent Police) and have launched a new film about disability hate crime to aid educational work in … Continue reading →

On Thursday 22 October several Tizard Centre members presented at the CBF’s Conference in Ormskirk.  150 people from all over the UK attended the Conference.  Dr Nick Gore gave two workshops on the PBS competencies framework and Prof Glynis Murphy … Continue reading →

The first talk in our Research Seminar Series is being held on Wednesday 28 October 2015 at 1700 hrs at the Kent Business School, lecture theatre 1.   Glynis Murphy, Co-director of the Tizard and Professor of Clinical Psychology and … Continue reading →