Mary Doherty 🏳️‍🌈 explaining concept of 'SPACE' to make reasonable adjustments at #NATPsychiatrists Royal College of Psychiatrists

A major milestone in the Divergent Sounds project: Come and hear the world-premiere of musical compositions by @AmbleSkuse and @JenBitesPeople that explore neurodivergent identities and experience. Tickets on sale now!

I am looking for a few volunteers to take part in a series of focus groups about perinatal mental health research, over the next few months. To find out more and complete a short eligibility survey, follow this link tinyurl.com/WANDAFocusGroup

We are recruiting parents/parents-to-be for a co-produced survey on perinatal mental health. If interested, you will have to email me for a survey link (as our public link was very quickly attacked by bots). Please help disseminate this within your networks.

Couldn't do any of this without my wonderful friends & colleagues: Síofra Heraty Dr Julie Sigurdardottir Tessel Bazelmans @AmberRuigrok @ElizaEatonStern Debbie M Smith💜 & others not on twitter wanda-study.co.uk/our-team

Very excited to be recruiting two new Editors to Autism Journal Reasons to apply: ✅ help to shape the field ✅ chance for learning even at established career stage ✅ stay on top of the literature ✅ supportive team & commitment to excellence journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

One of the biggest findings of the study is that autistic people have rates of #chronichealth conditions than others across ALL organ systems tested. We also considered a much wider range of conditions than anyone has looked at before

Thrilled to be at AIMS-2-TRIALS General Assembly, what a change in research focus & how autism is framed. Discussion on how to change current expectations that researchers write deficit based grant applications or risk not getting funded. Important questions in #AutismResearch

New Paper📢 Barriers to healthcare: the human stories behind the statistics & a proposed model of how barriers may lead to poor health outcomes With Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 Laura Carravallah Mona Johnson 🦓 💙 @StuartDNeilson et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… UCD Medicine BSMS CADS_LSBU

We are still recruiting participants for our perinatal mental health survey. Please complete if eligible and forward to others in your networks! We are particularly keen to get more responses from fathers/partners and from neurodivergent participants!

My PhD student Elinor Lim (she/her) needs more participants for her study on autistic undergraduate or master's students (current or past) and family members of them. Relatives (especially needed) can sign up on their own. Poster & details below; sign up bit.ly/unifam Please RT!

A giant in autism field I've been part of for 12 years, autism participatory research pioneer AASPIRE, is recruiting for an ambitious project: the outcomes that matter most to autistic adults. We still need 100's more participants - please RT! aaspire.org/projects/outco…

I am looking to interview autistic mothers with experience of autistic burnout in motherhood. Self diagnosed autistic and/or non-birthing, trans and non-binary mothers are all welcome to take part. Link for information and to sign up is here: sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ee… Thank you!

We are happy to announce that we have successfully recruited over 700 mothers and pregnant people for our WANDA study. We are still looking for fathers/partners to complete the survey. Email me if eligible, RT, or share the flyer further in your networks. Thank you!

gov.ie/en/consultatio… Anyone who cares about autistic lives can they please make a submission to this for Ireland’s autism strategy. This is the second consultation for this draft as they felt there weren’t enough submissions first time round. Some thoughts below:

Talking about measurement at psychology conferences

1. Crystal clear analysis from @Flac on Care Ref, busting myth that proposed wording is a neutral 'first step' & highlighting it is sexist & potentially compromises rights of people with disabilities. Asking everyone to read & reflect. #VoteNotoCareRef irishtimes.com/ireland/social…

Apart from the type of woman who has never and will never face the agonising choice to go into her minimum wage job or stay at home with her sick child and lose a day’s pay, risking losing her job altogether, no woman has ever said, do you know what’s busting my ovaries? The

Delighted to have another article published from my PhD research, specifically, this paper explores the experiences of individuals using services and seeking to re-integrate into society as part of their recovery journey emerald.com/insight/conten…...(1/7)