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Redmore, Ned and Tilley, Elizabeth (2025). Documenting and responding to the views and experiences of autistic people with profound learning disabilities: community and professional perspectives on current day-service practices. Tizard Learning Disability Review (Early Access).

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Grove, Nicola; Richards, Simon; Rice, Ssimon; Magwood, Claudia; Collis, Bryan; Martick, Steffan; Schuppener, Saskia; Kremsner, Gertraud; Tilley, Elizabeth and Walmsley, Jan (2024). Big ideas that changed the world of disability: Exploring theory with self-advocates. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52(4) pp. 687–699.

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Ingham, Nigel; Walmsley, Jan and Tilley, Elizabeth (2024). "You just want to do what's right": Staff collusion in institutional abuse of people with learning disabilities. In: Punzi, Elisabeth and Steele, Linda eds. Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization. Disability, Culture and Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 231–250.

Mikulak, Magdalena; Ryan, Sara; Tilley, Elizabeth and Ledger, Susan (2024). Sticky Categories and Their Negative Consequences: People with Learning Disabilities and ‘Behaviours that Challenge Others'. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1) pp. 110–123.

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Redmore, Ned (2024). A Phenomenological Methodology for Inclusively Researching the Views and Experiences of Autistic People with Profound Learning Disabilities. In: Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna and Jackson-Perry, David eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, pp. 257–278.

Ryan, Sara; Wallace, Louise; Tilley, Elizabeth; Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Mikulak, Magdalena; Anderson, Rebecca; Vaid, Angeli; Bebbington, Pam; Keagan-Bull, Richard; Morrissey, Emmie and Martin, Angela (2024). Improving support and planning ahead for older people with learning disabilities and family carers: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 12(16)

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Tilley, Elizabeth; Rouse, Lorna; Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene and Anderson-Kittow, Rebecca (2024). Reflections on an Evidence Review Process to Inform the Co-Design of a Toolkit for Supporting End-of-Life Care Planning With People With Intellectual Disabilities. Health Expectations, 27, article no. e70062.

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Pawlyn, Jillian (2023). Transition from Child to Adult Health and Social Care Services in England.

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Rouse, Lorna; Tilley, Elizabeth; Walmsley, Jan and Picken, Shaun (2022). Funding the Gap: A report on the funding of self-advocacy groups in 2021.

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Tilley, Elizabeth and Jarrett, Simon (2022). The history of the history of learning disability. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 50(2) pp. 132–142.

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Rouse, Lorna; Tilley, Elizabeth; Walmsley, Jan and Picken, Shaun (2020). Filling in the Gaps: The role of self-advocacy groups in supporting the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities throughout the pandemic.

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Mitchell, Duncan; Traustadoottir, Rannveig; Chapman, Rohhss; Townson, Louise; Ingham, Nigel and Ledger, Susan eds. (2006). Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities: Testimonies of Resistance. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Welshman, John and Walmsley, Jan eds. (2006). Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control and Citizenship. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rolph, Sheena; Atkinson, Dorothy; Nind, Melanie and Welshman, John [eds.] (2005). Witnesses to change: families, learning difficulties and history. UK: British Institute of Learning Disabilities Publications.

Atkinson, Dorothy; McCarthy, Michelle; Walmsley, Jan; Cooper, Mabel; Rolph, Sheena; Aspis, Simone; Barette, Pam; Coventry, Mary and Ferris, Gloria eds. (2000). Good Times, Bad Times: Women with Learning Difficulties Telling their Stories. Kidderminster: BILD Publications.

Brigham, Lindsay; Atkinson, Dorothy; Jackson, Mark; Rolph, Sheena and Walmsley, Jan eds. (2000). Crossing Boundaries: Change and Continuity in the History of Learning Disability. Kidderminster: BILD Publications.

Atkinson, Dorothy; Jackson, Mark and Walmsley, Jan eds. (1997). Forgotten lives: Exploring the History of Learning Disability. Kidderminster: BILD Publications.