Due to an ever increasing high volume of postgraduate applications we may be forced to bring forward the application deadline currently set at the 31st July 2013. We would therefore encourage all applicants to apply early in order to avoid disappointment.
https://records.kent.ac.uk/external/admissions/pg_application.php
Prof Murphy and Aida Malovic from the Tizard Centre, met with six visitors from Japan on Wednesday 26th March 2013. The group included psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists from several universities and service centres in Japan, as well as from the Ministry of Justice. They were here to discuss the SOTSEC-ID research that Prof Murphy leads and have requested that Prof Murphy and Neil Sinclair carry out some training in Japan. The group also met Tanya Tancred from Kent Probation and Neil Sinclair, who works with Prof Murphy in providing SOTSEC-ID groups in Kent.
For many years the Tizard Centre has held an Annual Lecture and we were delighted that David Behan, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission was able to deliver the first Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture. The event has been renamed in remembrance of Jim Mansell, founder of the Tizard Centre, who sadly passed away in March 2012. We were honoured that Jim’s widow, Stephanie and two of his children, Jennie & Harry were able to join us on this occasion. It was equally fitting that David Behan delivered the first talk as a close associate of Jim’s. David continues to have a distinguished career in social care.
The evening is an important way of highlighting issues that we care strongly about and of bringing together people from a range of backgrounds, both inside and outside of the University, many of whom we have worked with in the past or are currently working with.
We were also delighted to welcome Melvyn & Sophie Newell who very kindly presented the Tizard Annual Awards. Francesca Ribenfors won the Best Masters Mark 2013 and Stephen Marchant was presented with the Edward Newell prize 2012. The other prize winners were unable to attend the event.
The lecture was extremely well attended by over 90 people with many guests staying to Dinner with us at Darwin College. The evening was a great success and enjoyed by all.
For more details regarding the Tizard prizes: http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/courses/Tizard_Prizes.html
or for more information on the Jim Mansell Memorial lecture:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/research/lecture.html
Faced with another year of cutbacks in funding and resources the NAS Conference 2013 sought to celebrate creativity and innovation by focusing on the positive work being done to improve the lives of people with autism. Keynote sessions were given by top international speakers, including Dr Julie Beadle-Brown from the Tizard Centre, “Costs and outcomes of skilled support for people with severe intellectual disability and complex needs”
In line with the theme of the Conference, Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Dr Nicola Shaughnessy & Dr Melissa Trimmingham (both from University of Kent, Arts Department) gave a briefing on “Imaging Autism: exploring autistic imagination and the impact of drama based techniques”
This year for the first time the NAS launched a new initiative with the introduction of their Autism Professionals Awards. These acknowledged the outstanding contributions and achievements of individuals, teams and organisations who have demonstrated excellence, dedication and commitment to improving the lives of people with autism.
Come and experience what it is like to study at the Tizard Centre and hopefully learning something new at the same time. These sessions provide free training but also give you the chance to find out more about studying at the Tizard Centre. Our sessions run from 0930-1300hrs and are held at the Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury campus.
“Thank you for such a great lecture, I wish I had heard it before working with challenging behaviour but I feel I learned so much from you”
Georgina Zucchini-Watts, L’Arche, 2012.
Wednesday 24th April 2013 – Tony Osgood, Lecturer in Learning Disability
“Learning To Listen: Partnership & Person Centred Support in Challenging Behaviour”
The morning will detail person centred approaches to supporting people whose behaviour challenges the competencies of service systems, and participants will leave with some approaches shown to be effective.
Tuesday 21st May 2013 – Peter McGill, Co-Director and Reader in the Applied Psychology of Learning Disability – Challenging behaviour and positive behaviour support.
This session will address three questions:
The intention is to give participants a taste of the academic and practical issues surrounding challenging behaviour which is covered in much more depth on our courses.
Wednesday 12th June 2012 – Julie Beadle-Brown, Reader in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
“Skilled support for people with Autism”
After these sessions there will be an opportunity to speak to some members of the Tizard team. If you wish to sign up for these please email J.Ruffels@kent.ac.uk
We are delighted to announce that Prof Glynis Murphy (Co-Director and Professor of Clinical Psychology & Disability at the Tizard Centre) has been appointed to the prestigious position of Chair of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Challenging Behaviour in People with Learning Disabilities. Prof Murphy was interviewed for the position by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, which is one of the four Centres within NICE.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established as a Special Health Authority for England and Wales on 1 April 1999. It is part of the NHS and provides authoritative and reliable guidance on healthcare for patients, healthcare professionals and the wider public. One of its core responsibilities is to produce clinical guidelines to improve the quality of clinical care. On 1 April 2005 NICE joined with the Health Development Agency to become the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
NICE guidelines are evidence-based, systematically developed statements that assist clinicians and patients in making decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances. The advice contained must be derived from the best research evidence available using predetermined and internationally agreed methods, and including consideration of cost-effectiveness.
There are 4 professionally led National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) established to support the development and delivery of NICE guidelines, one of these being the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH). Established in 2001, the NCCMH is responsible for developing mental health guidelines, and is a partnership between the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and the British Psychological Society (BPS). The aims of guidelines looked at by the Groups (Centres) being to bring about genuine and lasting improvements in patient care
Guidelines are based on the best available research evidence. The NCCMH establishes a Guideline Development Group (GDG) for each guideline, consisting of health and social care professionals, lay representatives, and technical experts. The GDG develops each guideline by assessing the available evidence and deriving from it a series of clinical recommendations. Research recommendations are also developed which highlight gaps in the evidence to inform future research in this area.
For more information http://www.nccmh.org.uk/guidelines_methodology.html
A fantastic £381.25 was raised by our recent cake sale, so many thanks to all of you who came along and devotedly ate your way through mountains of home made cakes – it turned out to be quite a social event and so definitely one to repeat next year. Thanks also to our PGIDD students who threw themselves whole-heartedly into the pursuit of eating cake. Finally thanks to Lisa Richardson for organising the event.
Last week, Prof Murphy travelled to Portland in Oregon, USA, to give an invited plenary presentation on ‘ Autism and the Criminal Justice System’. The conference was the annual Autism conference of the Association of Behaviour Analysis International, and Prof Murphy was one of 11 invited speakers. She was the only speaker from outside the USA. See www.abainternational.org for further details of the conference and the organisation.
The Tizard Centre are holding a cake sale in support of the National Autistic Society on Wednesday 30th January 2013 1200-14oohrs in the new building by the side of the Tizard Centre, Woodlands, Giles Lane. There will be a selection of delicious homemade cakes donated by some very proficient cooks from the team, on sale to eat or take away. All are very welcome to come along and support this event. One day when you can have your cake and eat it!
