News
2024
July: We are looking forward to running our ShARL conference on the 18th July. Details and online sign ups can be found on our Events page
June: It was a great pleasure for Marianne Day and Megan Freeth to attend the Faculty of Occupational Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting in Belfast, to present the results of the Colt-funded project: Understanding and Tackling the Barriers to Employment Experienced by Autistic Adults.
May: Congratulations to Laura Smethurst for publishing her DClinPsy empirical project in Autism in Adulthood.
April: Megan attended the Colt Foundation annual conference. What a great opportunity to learn about a wide variety of research aiming to improve health and well being at work.
March: Some exciting funding news this month, we've been awarded two new NIHR funded projects! Details to follow once all contracts are signed.
February: Dan presented his work on Open Science in Autism research at the Royal Society
January: We have launched data collection on our ICF CoreSets for Autism UK normalisation sample study.
2023
August: We are delighted to have received QR policy funding to support our collaboration with Autistica which will look at the utility of the ICF CoreSets for Autism in the UK
July: Congratulations to Jiayi Chen, who has passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. Jiayi's thesis was entitled A cross-cultural study of autism stigma and camouflage in the UK and China
June: Welcome to Dr Marianne Day who will be working on a Colt Foundation funded project entitled: Understanding and Tackling the Barriers to Employment Experienced by Autistic Adults
May: It was a great privilege to attend INSAR and share our findings on What Autistic Adults want from Post-diagnostic Support. This work will be published in Autism soon! Also, congratulations to Louis Stokes, who has passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. Louis' thesis was entitled The impact of MYT1L-syndrome on behaviour and cognition
April: Attendance at the SBRI Healthcare annual conference enabled us to share findings on our pilot work on the ICF CoreSets for Autism web platform in the UK
March: Congratulations to Rosie Wilson DClinPsy on publishing work from her thesis: The experience of seeking, receiving, and reflecting upon a diagnosis of autism in the UK: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies conducted with autistic individuals
February: Pleased that our chapter on Autism Across the World will be published in the Handbook for Autism 5th Edition
January: It was great to present at the Psychonomics and EPS joint symposium on Cognition in the “real-world”: How, Why and What next?