Grants

Current and Recent Grants Awarded to the LDRG

2008-2011 Assisted eating and drinking in the care of people with profound and multiple
                disabilities:the social significance of clinical interventions for managing                                            dysphagia.
                Redley, M., Clare, I.C.H. and Holland, A. J.
                National Institute for Health Research - Research for Patient Benefit

Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation

2007-2010 Marcus Redley - Collaborative Studentships, Eating and drinking support for people with complex disabilities

Speaking Up

2006-2007 Marcus Redley-Independent Mental Capacity Advocate: Representing the best interests of adults who lack capacity to make decisions about 'serious medical treatment' or a change of accommodation

The National Institute for Health Research-Research for Patient Benefit Programme

2007-2010 Ring, H, Croudace, T, Redley, M., Goh, S (Cambs & Peterborough Mental Health Trusts), Wood, N. (Cambs & Peterborough Mental Health Trust) and Deverill, M (University of Newcastle) and Armstrong, N (Univerity of Newcastle) - Epilepsy in People with Learning Disability.

Bailey Thomas Foundation

2005-2007 Professor Tony Holland and Dr Joyce Whittington - study of the early phenotype of Prader Willi Syndrome

Cerebra and UK Prader-Willi Syndrome Association

2006-2008 Dr Joyce Whittington, Dr Tessa Webb and Professor Tony Holland - Grant to undertake a study of people with Prader-Willi Syndrome and unusual genetics. (to be undertaken at the University of Birmingham)

Department of Health.

January-March 2007 Dr Marcus Redley, Dr Isabel Clare, Professor Tony Holland - Collecting baseline data for measuring the impact of the Mental Capacity Act "in connection with the care or treatment" of general hospital patients.
2006-2007 Dr Marcus Redley, Dr Isabel Clare, Professor Tony Holland and Professor Michael Gunn (Univ of Derby) - to study the pilot the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Schemes to be introduced as part of the Mental Capacity Act.
January-March 2007 With the completion of this part of the project a further grant has been awarded to Dr Marcus Redley, Dr Isabel Clare and Professor Tony Holland to maintain the IMCA database and to investigate IMCAs in health settings further.
2005-2006 Professor Tony Holland and Dr Peter Langdon (UEA) - Eastern Region Learning Disability Research Network

Department of Health Forensic R&D

2007-2010 Jessica Wheeler has been awarded a Studentship to undertake a study of the environmental influences on offending by people with learning disabilities.

Down's Syndrome Association

2006-2010 Alexander Phillips has received support for a PhD to investigate exercise physiology of people with Down’ syndrome. This is in collaboration with Dr Dan Gordon at Anglia Ruskin University

International Autistic Research Organisation

2006-2007- A grant for a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language processing in people with autism.

National Alliance for Autism Research

2004- 2006 Ring, H. - Developing the N400 as a biological marker for semantic processing in people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

6th Framework Programme of the European Union

2005-2008 Co-ordination of an EU funded study on Prader Willi Syndrome over three years from Dec undertaken in collaboration with colleagues in 11 EU research centres.

The Health Foundation

Support over 15 years from 1st September 2002 to Professor Tony Holland for The Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities.

Wellcome Trust

2005-2008 Michael Dunn has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Studentship in Biomedical Ethics to study the legal, ethical and practical aspects of substitute decision-making, in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and residential care provision for adults with intellectual disabilities, supervised by Dr I. C. H. Clare & Professor Tony Holland.

Michael Dunn, Jessica Wheeler, Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge) and Jonathan Ives (Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham) have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Symposium Grant in Biomedical Ethics to support the 2nd Annual Postgraduate Conference in Bioethics, 'Why Bioethics? Our research in context'

Beebe Trust

2003-2008 - Beebe Trust Research Fellowship, Isles, A.R.

Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN)

2007-2008 - Isles, A.R. with Hinton, E. (Psychology, Cardiff University), Parkinson, J. (Psychology, Bangor University) & Williams, N. (Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University). Funded by the Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN) - Pilot Grant scheme. Exploring the genotype and phenotype of excessive motivation.

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