📢Calling parents/ carers of pupils identified with SEND📢 If your child is currently in the final year of mainstream primary education in the UK, please consider taking part in the STEPS survey on secondary transition. yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eK… #SEND #InclusionMatters

It was great to be able to be part of the Framwellgate School Diversity Day today and deliver an assembly on neurodiversity Durham Psychology Jessica Hirst Debbie Riby

A summery book club today for Centre members with Jessica Hirst Chloe Fielding Amy Pearson Debbie Riby Professor (hoorah) Hanley Mary Hanley and of course Anna reading ‘We Spread’

Find our most recent preprint on the OSF - ‘The effect of the classroom sensory environment on engagement for autistic pupils: classroom noise, classroom displays, & teacher display practices’ doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… Mary Hanley Emily McDougal Jessica Hirst

Here is a new blog post from Debbie Riby Amy Pearson & Jessica Hirst on neurodiversity-affirmative PhD supervision as a guest post for the ‘Supervising PhDs’ blog led by Kay Guccione 👇👇 supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2024/07/29/dev…

Still in need of participants for our online study of autistic experiences of sex, intimacy, and relationships. See below or DM me for more info!

First paper from my PhD out now! Thanks to everyone who helped me throughout the process, especially my supervisors Prof Lynda Boothroyd Dr Elizabeth Evans Prof D Cowie

Had a wonderful & very productive time away at our 3 day writing retreat Louise Hanson ✿ 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚊 ✿ ✨ See below our daily word count update (for added motivation), evening trip to read on the beach & the beautiful view we had while writing 😄

📢For a fun, free educational activity for children come along to Junior Scientist at Durham University – a 2.5 hour session of fun & engaging activities that will give children a fantastic introduction to mind and brain 🧠- 27-29 August! Info & booking: psytech.awh.durham.ac.uk/juniorscientis…

Come along to our Babylab Open Day this Saturday between 11am and 4pm!👶🏼🧠🔢

We are very much looking forward to Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ joining us in Durham!

Our amazing Durham_NeuroDev PhD student Jessica Hirst presenting her work on school success among autistic young people

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Well done Jessica Hirst for your #BPSDev2024 best poster prize for a poster on study 1 of your PhD - ‘what does school success mean for autistic and non-autistic adolescents?’ Durham Psychology

NINE DTP Durham Dev Sci Peter Gallagher Professor Jill Clark CreativeArts@NCLUni NCL CFLAT Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Northumbria Psy Newcastle Psychology Teesside Psychology Sunderland School of Psychology For more information feel free to check out the conference website here: sites.google.com/view/cimr-cyp/…

Final call! If you are a PGR using creative or innovative methods in research with children and young people, consider submitting an abstract for this conference we will be hosting at Durham University on Oct 23rd! The deadline to submit abstracts is Sept 23rd :)

ESRC Festival of Social Science event ‘Autism, Neurodiversity & School Life’ jointly organised by the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development, the Communication & Interaction Team at Durham County Council, and Investing in Children charity, Wed Nov 6, 4pm: bit.ly/4dgkY6u