Current employment: consultant psychologist for adults with learning disabilities with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Visting Clinical Research Fellow with the University of Brighton. I am lead clinical psychologist for Brighton & Hove learning disability services and co-professional lead for LD psychology across SPT. Introduced 'talking therapies' to frontline LD services in 1986 (see Waitman & Conboy-Hill 'Psychotherapy & Mental Handicap' Sage 1991) and led development of clinical & counselling training in this area through publications and workshops. Published work includes peer reviewed articles on bereavement, parenting assessment and others, conference presentations, workshops and training sessions. Most recent work includes a paper on psychological safety that proposes the development of a 'professional family' model of service design (after Seager 2007) and specialist interview technique to assess capacity in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Based on the cognitive interview developed as a police witness technique in the gathering of best evidence (see Rebecca Milne and others), this is also published work. Most recentactivity includes development of research into the use of immersive virtual reality with adults with LD in a range of therapeutic and assistive contexts. We have been successful in a bid to the NIHR for funding to support a project in this area (see IVE PDF link).