Peter Langdon PhD

Peter completed his undergraduate degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and went on to complete his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London as a Lord Rothermere Fellow. Following this, he completed his PhD at the Tizard Center as an NIHR Research Fellow. Before joining the Tizard Center, he was a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

His research and clinical work focuses upon the development and evaluation of psychological therapies and systems of care for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, including those who have come into contact with criminal justice. He has completed several clinical trials in this area, and is working to evaluate innovative technologies for use as adjunctive interventions to help improve the accessibility of psychological interventions for people who have intellectual disabilities and autism. He was twice previously a research fellow of the National Institute for Health Research, and is the Editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.