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On Wednesday 9 November Prof Murphy chaired a conference for Cartref Homes, “Supporting learning disabled offenders in the community: balancing rights and restrictions“. Speakers included Baroness Finlay, Prof Murphy, Jenny Talbot (from Prison Reform Trust), Jimmy Kerrigan (Kent LD commissioner), Dr Neil … Continue reading →

Help us to pilot a new questionnaire designed to measure the quality of life of people with learning disabilities or autism who use adult social care services. This project is a pilot of a new questionnaire that is part of … Continue reading →

The University online booking system is now open to register for either of our courses. Person-centred active support training will take place over two days, 13 February and 3 April 2017 at the University of Kent, Canterbury campus.  Full details … Continue reading →

This year’s Seattle Club Conference is being hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University in association with the University of Glasgow and Napier University Edinburgh. An impressive number of oral presentations and poster presentations have been accepted from members of Tizard. They … Continue reading →

In 2011 Professor Theresa Gannon secured a grant to undertake a three year project on the development, implementation and evaluation of a specialist treatment programme for criminal firesetters.  As part of this programme, Magali Barnoux (Post Doctoral Researcher at Tizard) … Continue reading →

Prof Glynis Murphy attended the Conference on Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour as a key note speaker, presenting on the NICE guidelines to 160 delegates including carers and professionals. Photo:  The honorable Evarist Bartolo, Minster of Education Malta (centre) addressed … Continue reading →

Study Plus at the University offers a diverse range of courses in lots of different areas, these are totally separate from your degree.  Courses are free and open to all registered Kent students.  These are non-credit bearing courses in a … Continue reading →

Following on from Sally Phillips’ film about Down’s syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, there have been a number of posts on the Tizard Centre facebook page.  This is a closed group which you can join if you wish … Continue reading →

The 15th World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) in Melbourne, Australia was attended by a number of Tizard Centre’s academics, researchers and students: Prof Rachel Forrester-Jones, Prof Glynis Murphy, Prof Julie Beadle-Brown, … Continue reading →

Together with Bev Murphy from United Response, Prof Julie Beadle-Brown(Tizard Centre) has developed a new resource for inspectors, quality monitors, commissioners and anyone else who might be looking at the quality of services for people with intellectual disability and/or autism. … Continue reading →