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Rashmi Becker previously gained an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge and has since gained a depth and breadth of professional experience working for central government, the EU institutions and national learning disability and autism social care providers. Witnessing first-hand the challenges and opportunities concerning social care has motivated Rashmi to return to complete a PhD, exploring the commodification of care and implications for people with a learning disability. The 3-year PhD studentship, which commenced in 2015 is funded by CLAHRC East of England and is part of the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage Research Theme.
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He held lectureships in both of these departments in London before moving to Cambridge in 1994. He is also Director of CLASS (Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service), a clinic for adults with suspected AS. He has been awarded prizes from the American Psychological…
Fergus is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the Department of Clinical Psychology, seconded from his post as Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in Cambridgeshire Community Services (NHS) Trust. He was formerly the Clinical Lead for the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Clinical and research interests are in neuropsychological rehabilitation, specifically self-regulation, identity, emotional adjustment and psychological therapy following brain injury, and he has published a number of papers and book chapters on these topics. Fergus holds honorary positions as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist with the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, NIHR CLAHRC East of…
Dr Paul Wilkinson is University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His particular clinical areas of interest are adolescent depression and self-harm. He carries out research into the epidemiology and treatment of depression and self-harm. Paul also leads teaching of psychiatry to clinical medicine students at the University of Cambridge. Paul leading a CLAHRC project which is evaluated the first UK pilot of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for adolescents, by Suffolk local authority family support workers.
Dr Isabel Clare is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist in the Enduring Disabilities and/or Disadvantage Theme, where, reflecting her clinical experience and one of her main areas of research interest, she leads projects (i) examining the design and delivery of services by Community Learning Disabilities Teams to men and women with learning (intellectual) disabilities and additional mental health and/or behavioural needs, and (ii) investigating the impact of transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) on the aggressive behaviour of people with neurodevelopmental conditions (learning disabilities and/or autism) or acquired brain injury. She is also a Fellow and Tutor at Lucy Cavendish…
Emeritus Professor Tony Holland leads the Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage (EDD) theme of the CLAHRC and since 2002 he has held the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Together with colleagues he established the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG). He has collaborated on research in a broad range of topics including: ageing and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome; the behavioural and psychiatric aspects of Prader Willi Syndrome; the interface between clinical and social care practice and the law including studies relating to…
Dr Amelia Eleftheriades Since qualifying as a clinical psychologist in 2001 Amelia has developed two main areas of specialism: autism and clinical health psychology. Experienced in NHS, education, social care and third sector settings, Amelia has worked at a senior level supporting a variety of multi-disciplinary teams. She is committed to providing quality psychological services, particularly to people with complex needs and continues to enjoy opportunities to learn something new from her contact with interesting people every day. Her current NHS role is with iCaSH sexual health clinic where she leads the psychology team in offering specialist services to people…
Louisa is a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in work with adults with learning disabilities since qualifying in 2007. Louisa currently works in Cambridge Learning Disability Partnership, and has a special interest in work understanding behaviours that challenge. Her project will be to develop a pathway to promote and support the use of Positive Behaviour Support within the LDP.
Dr Katie Burton Katie is a community paediatrician working in Cambridgeshire. Her research degree was on children with epilepsy in a community in Tanzania. Her project is focussed on the use of outcome measures in children in community services.
Dr Kate Psaila is a Clinical Psychologist working within Neurorehabilitation in Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS). Currently she is providing Neuropsychology services across both CPFT (stroke) and CCS (acquired brain injury) as well as working to support NHS staff wellbeing and resilience. Having worked at both the Oliver Zangwill Centre and the Learning Disability Partnership, in 2009 she became part of the team involved in setting up the Evelyn Community Head Injury Service (ECHIS), for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families in 2009. The CLAHRC Fellowship is giving her the opportunity to use the systematically collected data to…
Professor Mark Whiting is a Consultant Nurse for Children with Complex Health Needs in Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. He also holds an appointment (as WellChild Professor of Community Children’s Nursing at the University of Hertfordshire. WellChild is a National Charity whose work is focused upon the provision of care, support and research for children with long term and complex health needs and Mark’s research focus will be in this area. Mark has a long-standing involvement in the development of Community Children’s Nursing services across the United Kingdom and his interest in this area incorporates elements of clinical practice, strategic leadership…
Dr Andrew Bateman is Director of Research at The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Affiliated Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; and Chair of United Kingdom Aquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF). He is also Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Theme Lead for the NIHR BrainMIC. In his neurorehabilitation research he aims to draw together two elements stemming from his vocational and academic training in Physiotherapy and Cognitive Neuropsychology. The first is within the field of neuropsychology, at the intersection of vision and motor control, and the second concerns the application of modern psychometric techniques to develop objective measurement in rehabilitation outcomes…
Dr Carrie Allison is a research manager at the Autism Research Centre. Projects she has worked on include: Early Screening for autism at 18 months; Adolescent and Childhood Autism Spectrum Quotient, and the prevalence of autism spectrum conditions in primary schools (CAST).
Dr Howard Ring's background is in research, education and clinical service development in neuropsychiatry and the psychiatry of intellectual disabilities (ID). Howard's research initiatives with CLAHRC included the study of non-pharmacological approaches to epilepsy management in adults with ID and the application of EEG and psychophysiological measures to investigate biological associations of behavioural symptoms in people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Howard also worked on a CLAHRC acceptability and feasibility study seeking to understand if transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulation of heart rate variability can reduce aggression by adults with developmental or acquired brain injury.