Freya Tyrer is leading on the “big numbers” part of the DAPPLE project. In this blog post, she tells us what the numbers are saying about how people with learning disabilities experience end-of-life care.   Photo: Freya Tyrer I’m an epidemiologist – which is a fancy way of saying that I use big numbers to understand health conditions.    I have always worked with numbers. Maths was my best subject at school 😊 . I originally did a Computer Science degree, starting out as a co

Back in December 2024, members of the DAPPLE team went to the Seattle Club Conference. The conference was held in London (not Seattle!) on 12-13 December by King’s College London. The Seattle Club Conference is the premier UK-based conference for intellectual and developmental disability research. This year’s conference themes were health inequalities and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and inclusive research with keynote presentations by Professor And

The other week we gathered around the talented researchers to do some training. We focused on those researchers who will be going out and learning about people’s lives and how they are supported by different services and those around them, especially when they have a life-limiting illness and may be towards the end of life. They will be going to four parts of the country and, through their engagement with people and services, developing a sense of case studies. To do this, th