Category Archives: Tizard

This year’s Seattle Club Conference took place in Cardiff at the Radisson Blu Hotel and was attended by a number of Academics from the Tizard Centre, as well as some of our PhD students.  The key note presentation was given by … Continue reading →

“Preventing challenging behaviour of adults with complex needs in supported accommodation”  We are currently seeking a research assistant on the above project primarily to collect follow up data in services where the intervention has been carried out and in a … Continue reading →

We’re absolutely delighted to let you know that the University has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for the work of the Tizard Centre. We’ve known this for a couple of weeks but were under … Continue reading →

 The Cumbria Adult Community Learning Disabilities Service are looking to appoint a clinical psychologist based three days in Barrow-in-Furness and two days in Workington. They are looking for a highly motivated individual with a desire to develop both clinical and leadership skills under … Continue reading →

The Jigsaw Trust in Surrey are currently seeking to recruit 8-10 graduates for their Graduate Teaching programme, and are particularly keen to find those who are passionate about working with children with learning difficulties.  Ideally they are looking for psychology … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre has one departmental scholarship to award to an outstanding applicant (to start in September 2014).  This covers tuition fees, at the level of Home/EU fees as well as offering a bursary of £13,726 per annum for a … Continue reading →

Prof Glynis Murphy was invited to present a plenary on ‘People with Learning Disabilities in Prison: What we Know and What we Need to Do’, at the Scottish National Prison Healthcare Network conference, in Glasgow last week. Other plenary speakers … Continue reading →

Professor Glynis Murphy last week attended tea at the House of Lords along with others interested in learning disabilities and the Criminal Justice System.  Speakers at the event included Lord Bradley, as well as Juliet Lyons and Jenny Talbot (from … Continue reading →

A three-year research project  carried out by Autism London, MCCH, Kent Police and the Tizard Centre, University of Kent has now reached its conclusion.  This is an opportunity to share the findings and recommendations which have been made. Monday 11th November, … Continue reading →