Executive Committee
Chair:
Jim Mansell, Tizard Centre,
University of Kent,
Canterbury, England CT2 7LZ.
Email: [email protected]

Deputy chair:
Johannes Schädler, Zentrum für Planung und Evaluation Sozialer Dienste (ZPE),
Universität Siegen, D-57068 Siegen,
Germany.
Email: [email protected]

Secretary/Treasurer:
Julie Beadle-Brown, Tizard Centre,
University of Kent,
Canterbury, England CT2 7LZ.
Email: [email protected]

Members:
Chris Bigby
Department of Social Work and Social Policy,
LaTrobe University, Bundoora 3086,
Victoria,
Australia.
Email: [email protected]

David Braddock,
Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities,
University of Colorado,
4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 210
Boulder, CO 80303,
United States of America.
Email: [email protected]

Eric Emerson,
Institute for Health Research,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster,
England LA1 4YT.
Email: [email protected]

Chris Fyffe,
47 Fadersons Lane,
Mandurang 3551,
Victoria,
Australia.
Email: [email protected]

Mission
The Special Interest Research Group on Comparative Policy and Practice exists to further the planning, coordinating and conducting of activities relevant to all aspects of comparative policy and practice in the field of intellectual disabilities. Its mission is to
(i) Provide a focus for the worldwide exchange and dissemination of research comparing policy and practice in intellectual disability.
(ii) Promote cross-national, multidisciplinary collaboration in comparative policy and practice, with the aim of improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers, throughout the world.
(iii) Serve as a medium for deliberation, exchange of ideas, knowledge, skills and experience and for compilation, publication and dissemination of information about comparative policy and practice in intellectual disability.

Membership
All members of the IASSID are eligible to join the CPP-SIRG. People interested in joining the SIRG are invited to contact Julie Beadle-Brown at the address below.

Contact
Julie Beadle-Brown
Tizard Centre,
University of Kent,
Canterbury,
England CT2 7LZ.
Email [email protected].

Future plans
The first meeting of the SIRG was held at the European IASSID conference (Maastricht 2-5 August, 2006). The first roundtable will be held in Prague in November 2007.

Bye-laws
[Hyperlink - to be supplied once bye-laws approved].