Completed PhDs

 2011  

Dr Elizabeth Fistein
How can compulsory detention in hospital for psyhiatric treatment be justified? An analytic and empirical investigation

Jessica Wheeler 
Environmental factors and offenders with intellectual disabilities
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 2010

Owen Churches
The psychophysiology of face perception in autism spectrum conditions
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Lydia Luke 
Decision-making in autism spectrum conditions
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Lay summary of decision-making project

Alexander Phillips
An investigation of physical activity in individuals with intellectual disabilities with and without Down's syndrome
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 2009

Michael Dunn
Substitute decision-making in residential social care: A socio-legal analysis
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 2008

Rebecca Hawkins
Caring: The Policies and Practices of Care in a Residential Home.
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Panagiotis Siaperas 
Movement performance in Asperger’s Syndrome: An investigation of sensorimotor processing

 2007

Clare Bolton
Prosocial Decision-Making In Men With Learning Disabilities
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 2006

Sarita Soni
An investigation into psychiatric illness in people with Prader-Willi syndrome: evidence for a genetic basis for psychosis.
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 2005

Sarah Ball
The course of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down’s syndrome: evidence for the early compromise of frontal lobe function.
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Elanor Hinton
The neural basis of the motivation to eat in Prader-Willi Syndrome.
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Dr Marc Woodbury-Smith
An investigation of offending among adults with high functioning autism or Asperger syndrome.
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 2003

Irenka Suto
Psychological constructs of financial decision-making capacity: implications for adults with learning disability.
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 1998

Johnny Hon
A new approach to studying prevalence and incidence of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults with Down syndrome
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