Rod has spent his entire working life in services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. He delivers training on a wide variety of topics and is the lead Project Officer for our externally funded projects.
Rod heads ARC England’s training on the Mental Capacity Act, Medication, Risk Management, Online Harms, Self-Harm and Self-Neglect, Mate Crime, Domestic Abuse, and others.
Rod’s most recent project was Us Too, a Comic Relief-funded user-led project on domestic abuse and sexual violence for women with learning disabilities and autistic women. The Us Too team has drawn on their experiences to design and deliver peer education workshops, staff training and accessibility work with domestic abuse services.
Rod was previously Project Officer for (amongst many others):
– Safety Net – a project on mate crime
– Get SMART (Social Media Awareness and Resilience Training) project – a user-led project on social media grooming for extremism and radicalisation.
– Helping Each Other, another user-led project on sexual exploitation.
Rod has also worked on research projects with Durham, Sunderland and Manchester Metropolitan Universities, and has just published a SWOTT Toolkit on domestic abuse with Sheffield University.