Completed PhD students include:
Naomi Pearson (1st sup), ‘Exploring the Characteristics of Social Skills Assessments’ (PhD in Applied Psychology).
Rachel Harrison (1st sup), (2024) ‘The impact of cuts to care and support on the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, older parents and managers of support services’ (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 50th Anniversary Scholarship).
Elisabeth Gale (1st sup), (2024) Autistic woman and girls: Development of tools to better identify autistic women and girls’ (PhD in Applied Psychology, Tizard Centre Scholarship).
Joanne Morrison (1st sup), (2023) the use of communication with people with learning disabilities and/or autism in the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Tizard Centre Scholarship).
Dr Melanie Howell (2nd sup), (2020) ‘The Development and Preliminary Validation of Teacher Assessment of Barriers to Learning for Pupils on the Autism Spectrum in Special Schools’ (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Tizard Centre Scholarship).
Dr Gabor Petri (2nd sup), (2018) ‘Still Out in the Cold” – Self-advocacy and the Disabled People’s Movement’ (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’, Tizard Centre Scholarship).
Dr Marica Gatt (1st sup), (2021) ‘Improving Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use between Mothers, Siblings and Children with Communication Disabilities’ (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities).
Current PhD candidates include:
Mark Murphy (2nd sup), Developing a framework to strengthen system-wide processes for support planning in relation to the emotional and behavioural development of individuals with IDD’ (PhD in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Tizard Centre scholarship).