Inaugural Lecture of Professor Caroline Richards

Join Professor Caroline Richards for her Inaugural Lecture

Improving clinical outcomes for children with intellectual disability 

This is a hybrid event: you can register for to join virtually via Zoom here.  

"All children can show behaviours that have the potential to cause harm to themselves or others. However, children with intellectual disability are more likely to show these behaviours, resulting in poor clinical, social and educational outcomes. In this lecture, I will present research from my team on self-injurious behaviours, sharing our work which has sought to model risk pathways and identify causal mechanisms that lead to self-injury. I will describe how collaboration with families, colleagues and clinical services has helped us to develop novel assessment methods and revealed new approaches for interventions to improve outcomes for children with intellectual disability."  

Caroline is a Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions, in the School of Psychology. She completed her PhD in 2012, supervised by Professor Chris Oliver at the University of Birmingham, exploring risk markers for self-injurious behaviour in autism. Caroline then undertook training as a Clinical Psychologist and completed a postdoctoral fellowship, leading research on sleep problems in children with rare genetic syndromes. In 2020, collaborating with Dr Jane Waite, Dr Hayley Crawford and Dr Jo Moss, Caroline established the cross-institute Cerebra Network. The Network pioneers research to improve clinical assessments and interventions for children with rare and complex neurodevelopmental conditions.  

Everyone is welcome to this event, and all are invited to join us after the lecture for refreshments in the Lapworth Museum.