THE SEATTLE CLUB

11th 'Seattle Club' Conference on Research in Intellectual Disabilities

 

 

Selwyn College, Cambridge

 

Last year’s conference, held in Llandudno, marked the 10th anniversary of the Seattle Club.

 

The conference this year is being hosted by the Developmental Psychiatry section [http://dev.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ ] of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. The event is therefore being held in Cambridge, in the beautiful surroundings of Selwyn College. The college is within walking distance of the historic town centre, which can be reached via the famous “Backs” and across the River Cam.

 

Submission of abstracts

 

Registration for the conference is dependent upon having an abstract accepted. All abstracts should be submitted using the on the Seattle Club website. The deadline for submission is 5pm on Friday, 30 September 2011.

 

Registration

 

Registration fees are £90 per person to include conference registration (two days), lunches, refreshments, and a conference reception and dinner on Wednesday, 7 December. Please note that no registration fee discount is available for single day registration or registration without the conference dinner.

 

Places are limited at the conference and registration for those who are eligible (i.e. who have an abstract accepted) will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Registration and payment is via a dedicated bookings website. Your credit/debit card payment details will be required. Registration opens at 9am on Friday, 14 October 2011 when the bookings site will become live. The closing date for registration will be 5pm on Monday, 14 November 2011.

 

Accommodation

 

En-suite rooms are available on site at Selwyn College for conference delegates. Please indicate when booking if you require accommodation, and for which nights (rooms will be available on the 6th, 7th and 8th of December). The cost is £70 per person, per night.

 

If you wish to make your own arrangements for accommodation, please go to www.visitcambridge.org for information on a range of places to stay in Cambridge.

 

2011 'Seattle Club' Keynote Speaker

 

Professor Glynis Murphy is a joint Chair of Clinical Psychology and Learning Disability at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, and at Oxleas NHS Trust. Previously she was Academic Director of the Clinical Psychology Training course at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University. She is President of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID), a fellow of the British Psychological Society, and co-editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability.

 

The title of Professor Murphy’s talk will be confirmed at a later date.

 

Conference information

 

Following the well established tradition of the 'Seattle Club' conferences:

• All participants must submit a poster or paper that describes the results of a research project (quantitative or qualitative) on intellectual disabilities (in other words, you cannot just come to listen, you must be an active and contributing researcher).
• The only exceptions to this rule will be made for PhD students at the beginning of their projects and other 'early stage' researchers who have not yet had the opportunity to complete a research study – via the award of a Seattle Club studentship.
• All papers and posters must include analysis of unpublished (in press and online early publication is ok, but not actually published) quantitative or qualitative data.
• Each participant is only allowed to submit one poster or paper where they are the first author/presenter.
• There are no parallel sessions (so everyone is able to go to everything).
• All information is electronically distributed to keep the costs as low as possible.
• All participants who want to attend, whether first author or co-author(s), must register and pay in advance for the conference.
• The Seattle Club conference is only open to residents from the UK and Ireland.

 

Studentships for 2011

 

As a general rule, only those with their names on an accepted submission can attend Seattle Club conferences. The exception is the 8 places we have available as Studentships for 2011.

 

Seattle Club Studentships are intended for PhD students at the beginning of their projects and similar 'early stage' researchers (including clinicians developing their research, trainees in professions related to intellectual disabilities, research assistants on new projects, etc.). Such individuals will be interested in and committed to research in the field, but will not yet have completed a study from which they can present data (and whose name therefore does NOT appear on a poster or oral presentation). Any person named as an author on a poster/paper abstract submission who is also put forward for a studentship will be excluded from the studentship draw. It is also not possible to add names to abstract submissions at a later date to ensure that individuals can register for the conference when not successful with a studentship application. Please do not try to beat the system. The whole thing relies on trust.

 

Studentships are bursaries that will cover the full registration costs (not travel or accommodation) for the conference. Applications should be made to Professor Richard Hastings using the form on the Seattle Club Studentships web page. In the event that the number of applications exceeds the number of studentships available, names will be pulled from a hat to decide the award of the studentships. The deadline for applications for the 2011 Seattle Club Studentships is Friday 30th September 2011, 5pm.

 

 

Contact details

 

Please direct any queries to:

‘Seattle Club 2011’

Developmental Psychiatry

Douglas House

18b Trumpington Street

Cambridge CB2 8AH

Tel: 01223 746100

Email: bjl33@medschl.cam.ac.uk

 

Venue and accommodation contact information:

Selwyn College

Conference Office

Grange Road

Cambridge CB3 9DQ

Tel: 01223 335855

http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/conference/