Huge congratulations to Ioanna Konstantinidou, who passed her PhD viva today (with very minor revisions).
Ioanna's research was entitled "Behavioural Staff Training In Social Care For Adults With Autism And Learning Disabilities: Evaluating Organisational Strategies To Enhance Skills Acquisition And Generalisation Across Teams"

Thank you to Examiners Prof Karel Pančocha (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) and Prof Gavin Davidson SSESW). Dr Sirin Song SSESW) chaired the viva.

Supervisors: Prof Karola Dillenburger (1st) and Dr Devon Ramey (2)

Ioanna found that staff training in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), in adult social care, has been the focus in an increasing number of studies. The positive outcomes of such training, primary for staff, have been reported. There is still, however, a need to explore further the variables that lead to an effective training. The evidence in relation to change in staff and service user behaviour and the impact of organisational behaviour management systems (OBM) on effectiveness, generalization and maintenance of these outcomes were explored in a systematic literature review (SLR) and two applied studies that took part in a residential facility that provides adult social care for individuals with autism and learning disabilities.