Welcome to the 2025 UK Seattle Club Conference on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The conference will take place in beautiful Canterbury at the University of Kent on 10–11 December 2025.
If you would like to attend, please submit your abstract here. The submission deadline is 13 October 2025 at 17:00 (UK time).
This year, we are offering 15 free registration places for non-presenting PhD students requiring financial support and for researchers with an intellectual disability.
Please indicate here if you would like to be considered for a sponsored place at the conference.
- Registration opens: October 2025
- Registration fee: £115
For questions, please contact p.triantafyllopoulou@kent.ac.uk
Information regarding the Seattle Club Conference:
This conference is dedicated to research on intellectual and developmental disabilities, with a focus on research conducted in the UK. We particularly encourage submissions and presentations from early career researchers. The conference provides a supportive and collaborative space to share UK-based research, receive constructive feedback, and build confidence for presenting at international conferences in the future.
You can take part in the conference if you are an author, or listed as a co-author, on a presentation.
The Seattle Club Conference takes its name from the city where the idea for the event was first conceived, during attendance at another conference in Seattle (USA). The meeting rotates its location each year, and we are delighted to be hosting the conference in Canterbury, at University of Kent this year.