Category Archives: Tizard

On Thursday 24 September 2015, Prof Glynis Murphy attended the Liaison & Diversion expert panel where the final service specification for Liaison and Diversion services was agreed.  Currently only 50% of areas in England have a L&D service.  These exist … Continue reading →

Melina Malli, Phd student at the Tizard Centre alongside Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones and Professor Glynis Murphy, have published a recent article “Stigma in youth with Tourette’s syndrome: a systematic review and synthesis”.   Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a childhood onset … Continue reading →

Aida Malovic, PhD student, presented a paper on Keep Safe, a new treatment programme for adolescents with harmful sexual behaviour at the EAMH-ID (European Association for mental health in intellectual disability) Conference in Florence. Led by Rowena Rossiter and Prof … Continue reading →

Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Dr Jill Bradshaw and Lisa Richardson gave presentations at the Conference, Making Research Count,  this September.  If you wish to see a copy of these they are available on the University of Bedfordshire website Dr Julie Beadle-Brown & … Continue reading →

Becky Hardiman, PhD student at the Tizard Centre is looking for children and parents to help with her research project ” exploring the relationship between cortisol and challenging behaviour in boys with Fragile X syndrome”. For more details regarding participants … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre hosted a very successful event as part of the University of Kent’s 50th Anniversary celebration weekend.  We were delighted to have Dr Janet Carr, OBE, as our Guest Speaker.  Dr Carr gave a very informative lecture based … Continue reading →

The United Response development team have developed a new communication tool to add to their best practice suite of resources.  This brand new resource has been written by Dr Jill Bradshaw, lecturer in Learning Disability at Tizard.  The communication tool … Continue reading →

The full report on the study of Raising Awareness and Combating Stigma: A Global Review is now available online.  This presents  findings from a review into attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities around the globe, and efforts to improve them in line … Continue reading →

Rebecca Monteleone has been studying for her Masters in Intellectual & Developmental Disability at the Tizard Centre over the last year having won the prestigious Fulbright scholarship, funded by sources in the UK and USA.  This is awarded to American … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that Vivien Cooper, OBE, has been awarded an Honorary University of Kent degree and will receive this in today’s ceremony being held at Canterbury Cathedral. Viv, CEO of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, a small charity … Continue reading →