
Midlands School of Psychology
Research Fellow
Contact:
Email address: g.l.unwin@bham.ac.uk
Dr Gemma Unwin
Research Fellow
Biography
I have been working at the University since May 2005, with the main focus of my research being behavioural and psychiatric problems in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). I have worked on four main projects, one a guideline development project for the use of medication to manage behavioural problems in adults with ID, another was to develop a series of accessible medication information for people with ID, which was an offshoot from the guideline project. I have recently completed a longitudinal explorative project investigating aggressive behaviour in adults with ID and am conducting a qualitative study of the views and experiences of services of adults with intellectual disabilities from Black and minority ethnic communities. I have also recently started an acceptability study of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing for trauma-related mental health problems in adults with intellectual disabilities.
