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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 →

This group was set up by Dr Michelle McCarthy and Amanda Bates (PhD student) from Tizard at the end of 2013.  The group is made up of service users who advise Tizard on different aspects of research, for example, commenting … Continue reading →

Following a mad few days Dr Jill Bradshaw and Prof Chris Hutton have managed to have their letter concerning the preventable death of Connor Sparrowhawk (aged 18)printed in The Guardian, this coincides with a debate in the House of Lords today into … Continue reading →

Colleagues will be saddened to hear about the death of Lorna Wing on Friday 6th June.  Lorna began her work in autism in the 1960s. As a parent of a child who had autism she helped to found the National … Continue reading →

On Monday 12th May 2014 along with project advisors Rob Marno, Allan Finn and Kathy Johnson,  Lisa Richardson from the Tizard centre and  Colin Guest project manager from MCCH attended a Joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism … Continue reading →