Prof in Intellectual Disability Research at the University of South Wales. I am currently leading the Marie Curie funded READY study https://www.readystudy.uk/home - a study of the last year of life of people with learning disabilities.https://bsky.app/profile/stuarttodd01.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stuarttodd01.bsky.social/post/3lyfc23lyy22lVery important piece on BBC news Wales- if we were to take ending premature mortality of people with learning disabilities in Wales to be a sole ambition what would happen next? eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcwyw9r2vd8eo&data=05%7C02%7Cstuart.todd%40southwales.ac.uk%7C11d7724504784e6fe0c508ddef743c5c%7Ce5aafe7c971b4ab7b039141ad36acec0%7C0%7C0%7C638930004740611011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fsn5MgpLuUJW4432VDwAvJUQeMZOTnQ3f27VHe4Y1fU%3D&reserved=009 Sep 2025 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:4elnasjl6ei6jf4aymy6ir2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfc23lyy22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/stuarttodd01.bsky.social/post/3lww2a5iujs2aits still too unusual for people to ask me why I do the research I do- yes Ive been a learning disability researcher all my working life but why death and dying and learning disability? I could provide a long answer bringing in history and sociology - and if you ask me for that I will. 1/221 Aug 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:4elnasjl6ei6jf4aymy6ir2e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lww2a5iujs2a