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Details for Professor Pauline Heslop
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Pauline Heslop |
| Job title | Professor of Intellectual Disabilities Studies |
| Department | School for Policy Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc., Ph.D.(Bristol), RGN, RSCN |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | learning disabilities health and social care health care mental health |
| Areas of expertise | Quantitative and qualitative research relating to people with learning disabilities and disabled people more generally in the particular areas of: •General health-related issues •Mental health and related issues •Transition from children's to adults' services •Short-break services and supports •Poverty and social disadvantage. I currently lead the national Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities, which is funded by the Department of Health. Prior to this, I was the Principal Investigator on the 'Hidden pain?' research project, which was about the perspectives of people with learning disabilities who self-injure. |