About Us
Welcome to The Rix Centre
The Rix Centre is a Research & Development Centre dedicated to the exploration of the uses of new media technology for the benefit of the learning disability community.
Multimedia can help people with learning disabilities to organise their thoughts, remember, learn and communicate more effectively in ways that can significantly improve their ability to live independent lives, contribute to the community and fulfil their personal aims and ambitions.
The Rix Centre is dedicated to working with the learning disability community to ensure that the benefits of these technologies are realised. We combine research and development with teaching and learning to provide a variety of products & services to realise this goal in partnership with a network of partners, customers and sponsors.
The Centre was established as a Charitable Organisation in 2004, growing out of research work at the University of East London and is based at the Universities’ London Docklands Campus where the Centre continues to bring together specialist researchers and new media developers with people with learning disabilities and their supporters. It is named in honour of Lord Rix, who has campaigned tirelessly for people with learning disabilities for over 60 years and is President of Mencap and Chancellor of UEL’
