Dr Mick Finlay and Dr Poul Rohleder from our Department of Psychology are celebrating after receiving a research grant from the British Academy to carry out a project looking at sex education for young people with learning disabilities.

The project, which is due to begin this summer is being run in collaboration with Mencap and with the participation of youth services in London. It will examine how sex education is delivered to young people with a range of intellectual disabilities. The research will involve video-recording of teaching sessions, and interviews with parents and sex education providers. Initial funding has been provided to complete a scoping study.