Category Archives: Tizard

We are delighted to announce that this year we have two students studying with us who have secured presitigous awards. Moffat Louis has been awarded a Chevening Scholarship in 2014.  This is a much respected and admired award which enables overseas students … Continue reading →

We are delighted to confirm that £146.00 was raised in cash donations for the Fragile X Society following the screening of “Mission to Lars”,  the story of a road trip of a lifetime with just one condition …. Tom’s.  The … Continue reading →

Choosing services for adults with learning disabilities or autism Choice has become an important slogan in social care: people should be able to choose a high quality service that best meets their need. In reality, we know very little about … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre recently welcomed 5 experts from Japan who were visiting Prof Murphy, Dr Neil Sinclair and Aida Malovic. They were discussing the SOTSEC-ID programme which Glynis and Neil trained them to use in Japan last August. The programme … Continue reading →

The Isabel Schwartz Scholarship:  The Tizard Centre are delighted to announce that they will once again be offering this scholarship to a student accepted on one of our Master’s programmes in intellectual disabilities, autism or applied behaviour analysis.  The scholarship … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that Phil Robinson has joined the Tizard team in a new role as Distance Learning IT Support Officer.  Phil’s main area will be to provide training and technical support for academic and student use of … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre are supporting a screening of the critically acclaimed feature documentary ‘Mission to Lars’ as part of their seminar series, on Wednesday 24th September at 5.30pm at the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent. The film follows two siblings as … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre are seeking to appoint a full time Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability on an on-going basis.  The main responsibility of the successful candidate will be to contribute to teaching and research in intellectual and developmental disabilities … Continue reading →

A number of Tizard staff and PhD students have successfully submitted abstracts and several will also be giving presentations of their research  at the IASSIDD Conference in Vienna this year. These cover a range of research areas with presentations, abstracts and … Continue reading →

Project advisors, Colin Guest (MCCH) and Lisa Richardson (Tizard Centre)  attended a Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice on Wednesday 18th June.  As part of the event on Addressing Health Inequalities in Learning Disability week the team presented  key … Continue reading →