Tizard Centre Annual Lecture

Each year the Tizard Centre hosts an Annual Lecture at the University of Kent and we invite a mixture of public figures and distinguished academics to discuss a subject of interest to a wide audience from within and outside the university.

The lecture is free of charge and open to all - UKC students, staff and external visitors are warmly invited to attend.

2012 Annual Lecture to be held on 23rd March.

Speaker and Venue to be confirmed

2011 Lecture and Annual Dinner

The 2011 lecture was given by Simon Duffy from the Centre for Welfare Reform "Disability and the Welfare State: Putting disability at the centre of radical welfare reform". This was attended by academics and guests from Service Industries and was hosted by Prof Glynis Murphy and Mr Peter McGill, Co-Directors of the Tizard Centre and by Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones, Master of Rutherford College. The lecture was followed by High Table Dinner in Rutherford College, an event very much enjoyed by all who attended.

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2010 Lecture

The Tizard Annual Lecture for 2010 was given by Professor Gerard Quinn on Friday 12th March and was attended by academics from a variety of disciplines, by students and by people from public, private and voluntary sector organisations locally and nationally. Prof Quinn talked about The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how it has been important in bringing together different fields related to disability. The lecture was followed by High Table dinner in Rutherford College.

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Previous Lectures

  • 2009 - Professor Steven Eidelman - Kennedy's legacy of deinstitutionalisation and present day manifestations of this.
  • 2008 - Dame Jo Williams DBE, Chief Executive of Mencap
  • 2007 - Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Development Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University.
  • 2006 - Stephen Ladyman, Minister of State for Transport and MP for South Thanet.
    Modernising Social Care: Reflections on Policy and Practice
  • 2004 - Gary La Vigna, PhD. Clinical Director of the Institute for Applied Behaviour Analysis in Los Angeles, California.
    A Positive Approach to Challenging Behaviour: Breaking the Circle
  • 2003 - Clare Wenger, Professor of Social Gerontology, University of Wales, Bangor.
    Successfull Ageing?
  • 2002 - Charles Westin, Professor of Migration and Ethnicity Studies, Stockholm University.
    Turmoil, Trauma and Transistions: The Mental Health of Refugee Children