Lauren Walker

Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible Consent Materials and Procedures: Lessons from Research with Autistic People and People with Intellectual Disability | Autism in Adulthood Informed, voluntary, ongoing consent is a central tenet of ethical research. However, consent processes are prone to exclusionary practices and inaccessibility. Consent materials are often too long an...

New free paper, Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible Consent Materials & Procedures: Lessons from Research w/ Autistic People & People w/ Intellectual Disability, from teams incl. AASPIRE - more coming from our Outcomes Project led by @cnicolaidis.bsky.social!
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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Top right image of Edinburgh with logo of Edinburgh uni and words eating disorders and behaviour research group. Top left EDAW 2025 in capitals. Bottom of the image is text stating day 1: autism and eating disorders. We are proud to host EDaC a research network to support interdisciplinary research, led by autistic individuals with lived experience

Day 1 #EDAW25 updates from us is that we are delighted to host the eating disorders and autism collaborative (EDAC) for updates you can find them here @edaceatingautism.bsky.social and www.edacresearch.co.uk where they have open access publications, interviews with researchers and opportunities

24.02.2025 14:17 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Applied Principles for Inclusive Practice in Neurodevelopmental Research: A Selection and Report of Illustrative Case Studies

Delighted to share this new open access article which presents four amazing case studies showcasing coproduction methods in neurodevelopmental research

Lots of people have published theory and there are some useful toolkits too, but its still rare to actually read what people did...

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Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible Consent Materials and Procedures: Lessons from Research with Autistic People and People with Intellectual Disability | Autism in Adulthood Informed, voluntary, ongoing consent is a central tenet of ethical research. However, consent processes are prone to exclusionary practices and inaccessibility. Consent materials are often too long an...

Important new insights on how to make consent materials and procedures more accessible when conducting research with autistic people and people with intellectual disability #AutRes
www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

23.02.2025 12:43 — 👍 62    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1

Research 101: Collaborating in Participatory Autism Research Research 101 is a training course designed by and for autistic people. The purpose of the course is to educate autistic people who are not academics or professional researchers, so they can be more in...

Open access Research 101 training is now available. It was created with Autistic adults. Ideally, researchers would use this training for their Autistic collaborators who want more information about research. salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects...

21.11.2024 23:21 — 👍 56    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 3

Sharing an Example of Neurodiversity Affirmative Hiring | Autism in Adulthood Hiring processes often unintentionally disadvantage neurodivergent candidates by expecting neuronormative performances without due scrutiny of their merits. We offer reflections as a neurodiverse rese...

New paper in Autism in Adulthood led by Stephanie Petty, arising from our Inclusive Neurodiverse Campuses (INC) project.

We reflect on actions that could remove barriers to employment (to a research position here) incorporating insights from both sides of the process.

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20.01.2025 10:35 — 👍 51    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 1

Applied Principles for Inclusive Practice in Neurodevelopmental Research: A Selection and Report of Illustrative Case Studies - Current Developmental Disorders Reports Purpose of Review Inclusive research practices are important for neurodevelopmental studies, facilitating the involvement of community members throughout the research process. Highlighting this value,...

Really pleased to have been part of the team who authored this new article: 'Applied Principles for Inclusive Practice in Neurodevelopmental Research: A Selection and Report of Illustrative Case Studies'. Huge thanks to @cjcrompton.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social for bringing us all together!

18.02.2025 18:40 — 👍 90    🔁 32    💬 5    📌 5

How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision

Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in @timeshighered.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

14.01.2025 11:26 — 👍 73    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 7

We're looking for autistic parents to take part in a study on burnout: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please take part/share if you have capacity.

07.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 20    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

Image of hand holding up plastic cup with two silver metal spoons in it against a turquoise background. Written text above this stating exhibition details 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday) time 10am to 5pm, free/drop in, location at inspace, 1 Crichton street, Newington, Edinburgh, EH 8 9AB

EDAC is proud to host an exhibition of photographs, drawings and digital art on the experience and research priorities of autistic people with eating disorders . inspace.ed.ac.uk/youre-not-al.... 1st to 8th march (closed Sunday Tuesday and Thursday, free drop in 10-5 quiet hour on sat.

03.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Please fill out this survey if you are autistic and into comics !

28.01.2025 08:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The workshop was focused on neuro-inclusive practice within the university and built on a neurodiversity awareness session we delivered to year 1 nursing students in 2024…looking forward more of this work on creating neuro-inclusive environments in HE

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Delighted to have co-facilitated a workshop with Kath Limond at the UWS Students’ Union and UWS Partnership conference. Great to hear about some of the brilliant work being carried out by colleagues on student engagement & partnerships, lots of discussion around belonging, community & inclusion.

31.01.2025 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Survey by my PhD student @elinorlim.bsky.social on how family (parents, partner, sibling, etc.) support may impact the experiences of autistic university students in the UK. See below for for eligibility and how to participate. Please share.

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