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Reesha Zahir

@reeshazahir.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the M-WAY (Mental health and Wellbeing of Autistic Young people) Study | also interested in sleep problems and autism | UCL

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Really important study - findings highlight why we must consider intersectionality in autism research

16.09.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New blog post about our qualitative study. Many thanks to
@schampton.bsky.social for her incredible work on this πŸ’™

I’ll also be at #AECongress2025 this week. If you’d like to chat more about this work (or connect about related research), I’d love to meet up β€” feel free to reach out!

09.09.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out this blog post about our unconventional approach to co-producing research questions on the M-WAY study!

If you'd like to stay in the loop about our research, give @m-waystudy.bsky.social a follow. We'll be sharing updates as the study progresses πŸ™‚

18.08.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The vaccine–autism connection: No link, still debate, and we are failing to learn the lessons A recent editorial questions why the vaccine–autism debate persists β€” read a section of the article below.

Really proud that @journalautism.bsky.social published this...

...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this.

www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...

10.08.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟 New paper out🌟

πŸ”— Open-access here lnkd.in/dFj997Ep

Our RE-STAR team co-produced the β€˜My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ with Autistic and/or ADHD young people and tested this with 746 neurotypical and neurodivergent adolescents aged 11 to 16 years.

26.07.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

A massive thanks once again to my brilliant supervisors @suereviews.bsky.social, Alex Kwong, and Danny Smith for their support throughout my PhD!

05.08.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi Bluesky! V late to the party, but I'm finally settling in here. A little intro: just finished my PhD at Edinburgh uni (see grad pic 😊), currently researching mental health of autistic young people at UCL. Will be posting updates about my research, & looking forward to engaging with you all here!

05.08.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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