Tizard PhD Studentship

The award will cover UK tuition fees and an annual stipend based on the current ESRC studentship maintenance (2021/22 rate £15,609). The Tizard Studentship is offered as a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. So, in return for the award, you will be expected to do a limited amount of teaching within the department on a regular basis.

The deadline for this scholarship has now passed.

Candidates will have obtained a First or good 2.1 undergraduate degree in a relevant subject and normally an MA/MSc at Merit or Distinction.

The Tizard Centre is one of the leading academic groups concerned with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to work alongside academics renowned nationally and internationally for their contributions to the field. The Tizard Centre offers the following research programmes on a full or part-time basis:

• Community Care
• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Applied Psychology
• Mental Health of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

For further information about the Tizard Centre, the academic staff and the research we undertake, please see our website.

We welcome applications concerning all aspects of the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but the academic staff named below are particularly interested in supervising research in the following specialist areas:

• Dr Magali Barnoux on people with IDD in the criminal justice system, in terms of offending behaviour, victims, and/or witnesses.
• Dr Jill Bradshaw on communication and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, person-centred approaches, people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, early positive approaches to support, communication and behaviours that challenge, implementation issues.
• Professor Michelle McCarthy on the broad areas of relationships and sexuality; abuse; sexual and reproductive health, especially for women with learning disabilities, reproductive rights for women with learning disabilities (inc. abortion, sterilization), parents with learning disabilities, media representations of people with learning disabilities.
• Dr Damian Milton on autism in a social and cultural context, ‘critical autism studies’, participatory research and the autistic ‘voice’, qualitative research in the field of autism, autism and empathy, educational approaches, and mentoring practices.
• Professor Chrissie Rogers on the broad areas of education, inclusion, criminal justice, mothering, care ethics, qualitative and creative research methods including photo-elicitation and auto/biographical sociology.
• Dr Ciara Padden on behavioural approaches to supporting people with IDD, particularly: approaches to supporting adolescents and adults; skills teaching; organisational context of behaviour change; and staff/carer training and wellbeing.
• Dr Serena Tomlinson on support for children with IDD who display challenging behaviour, including positive behaviour support; support and / or training for family carers of people with IDD; co-production; early intervention; behavioural interventions for children with IDD; behavioural approaches in educational settings for children with IDD.
• Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou on health-related issues and psychological interventions for both children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (eg, large scale GP health related data, sleep, cancer, eating disorders, obesity, A&E, vaccination etc.); educational settings/ approaches for autistic individuals; bullying; internet use and online safety; older adults and dementia; autism diagnosis.