ATC Research Group

The ATC Research Group meets 4 times a year and is currently reviewing its Terms of Reference. Its main aim is to promote research in TCs. Recently it held a joint Strategy meeting with the Community of Communities to bring together researchers and others from the different types of TC, to hear about their research and to develop a coordinated and coherent Research Strategy for TCs.

Current membership and areas of specialisation:

Diana Menzies, Chair - Personality Disorder and Complex Needs
Susan Williams - Enabling Environments & Qualitative Methodology
Kati Turner - Service User Specialist
Sheila Butler - Personality Disorder
Rex Haigh - Community Services for Personality Disorder
Mark Freestone - Forensic Mental Health and Research Methodology
Chris Evans - Quantitative Methodology, Rigorous Idiographics and Ethics
Caryn Onions - Children and Young People
Michael Luxford - Learning Disabilities
Beatriz Sanchez - Social Care and Psychosis
Simon McArdle - Education and Training
Craig Fees - Planned Environment Therapy Trust
John Tuberville - Children and Young People
Kirk Turner - Prison TCs and DSPD
Erik Broekaert - Addictions

Other ways of participating are by attending the annual research workshop which the R&D group will be instigating and through the research e-mail list TCResearch@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk

What research have you done/are you doing?

We urge you to actively encourage the access to TC research by making available past and current research carried out in your TC. This will be a valuable resource to those interested in or planning their own research. To register your research proposals and projects past, present and future please use the form here.