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Today our own Emine Gurbuz (she/her) and Steven Kapp participated in a Shaping the Conversation Sandpit Event by the Raising Voices in Research team about improving health in underserved communities University of Winchester. Emine focused on Culture, Stigma and Health and Steven on health inequalities.

Our own Steven Kapp has new free neurodiversity movement papers on how views relate to the social model of disability and parents: tinyurl.com/5axk66ua, and to closeness to autistic people with intellectual disability and nonspeaking autistic people: tinyurl.com/3zdfsx9h.

📢ICYMI: a recording is available of a CRAE presentation by Emine Gurbuz (she/her) on her The British Academy -funded community-based participatory research on UK autistic university students' support needs. 👇 Recruitment is ongoing - e-mail [email protected] to participate. 🙏

What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities? We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :) By Dr Alyssa M. Alcorn, Katie Cebula, Sue Fletcher-Watson and I for Frontiers for Young Minds kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Next Tuesday at 12 pm UK time for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities our own Emine Gurbuz (she/her) and Steven Kapp will speak w/ others globally at a higher ed webinar, organised by UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 in partnership w/ us, via our own @JulietteGudkne1. For details & to register👇

Elinor is looking for #ActuallyAutistic undergraduate or taught masters university students to participate in a study about family support at uni. Please share and participate it you can.

We Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity were proud to partner on a UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Global Disability Day event organised & (co-)run by our own PhD student @JulietteGudkne1 at which our Senior Lecturers Steven Kapp participated on a panel & Emine Gurbuz (she/her) delivered closing remarks. @uop_psychology University of Portsmouth

Our PhD student Katie Munday - Autistic and Living the Dream presented in @uop_psychology's PGR (Postgraduate Researcher) Research Day on autistic people's experiences of substance use and substance use services ("Improving substance use services for Autistic adults: Insights and recommendations").

We Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity were proud to partner w/ UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 for an International Persons w/ Disabilities higher education event organised by @JulietteGudkne1 at which she presented. See more from University of Portsmouth 👇 and catch her interview about it now on Thats TV Solent. port.ac.uk/news-events-an…

To change "physical accessibility needs" & "attitudes, systems, policies that exclude disabled ppl from higher education": "training educators, revising our curriculums, & creating campus cultures that are more inclusive for students & staff w/ disabilities". @JulietteGudkne1. ♾

Happy 2025 everyone! I'm still looking for autistic university students/graduates/leavers to take part in this online survey. Would be so grateful if you could share this post, send it to someone you know, etc. Thanks in advance 🤓🙏🏻

Well done to Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity PhD student Elinor Lim (she/her), who is presenting her PhD research, Investigating the role of family in autistic students' university journeys, at the South Coast DTP Final Year Conference. cc supervisors Emine Gurbuz (she/her) Steven Kapp Beatriz Lopez

ICYMI: We welcomed Matthew Harrison 🔬+🕹+🧠, Sarah Timperley and Jessica Riordan to Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity University of Portsmouth to learn about the University of Melbourne Neurodiversity Project on neurodivergent students and staff (see unimelb.edu.au/neurodiversity)! And we are now on BlueSky! @uopcidd.bsky.social

New Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity paper by Beth Fearon from her @UoP_PaLD MSc supervised by our own Steven Kapp with Amy Pearson of Durham_NeuroDev "Exploring the social emotional impact of puberty and adolescence on autistic people assigned female at birth". Free for now from Autism In Adulthood👇

My @UoP_PaLD student Edward Fisher is recruiting autistic adults who have been assessed by the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule to share your experiences of & views on ADOS, an interaction- & observation-based diagnostic measure. Participants can be anywhere. More info👇

Three temporary UK research assistant positions, for creating and monitoring a database, designing and updating website, and project lead, for profiling neurodivergent needs in school, uni and employment. CV and short expression of interest due to Emine Gurbuz (she/her) by 10th April.👇

Today our own Alessandra Fasulo co-authored presentation on Improving prosocial behaviour in the primary school classroom through a school-based mindfulness programme, & Steven Kapp presented on paper below on experience of autistic ppl AFAB, at Childhood & Youth Symposium. See 🧵👇:

Please help my student Valentina Olivieri with her study on first impressions using AI avatars ✅ 2 short scenarios 📷 Quick questions (~15 mins) 📷18+ with internet & a device research.sc/participant/lo… Visit this site or scan the QR code on the poster. Please retweet 🙏