Excited to be at #AEC2025! ShARL will be presenting 4 posters and a talk (NIHR projects on ICF Strengths and Needs Assessment; Community Partnerships using systems mapping for health @victorianewell.bsky.social ; ESRC projects on Student wellbeing and Attention Control; Views on Data Sharing)

ShARL is well repped at the conference:

Vikki @victorianewell.bsky.social - participatory research on underserved adults experiences of primary healthcare

Marianne - feasibility study using the ICF core sets for adult post-diagnostic support

Georgia - SR on autistic students drop-outs from HE

Excited to be in Dublin (despite the rain! 🌧️) for the Autism Europe Congress #AEC2025. I’ll be presenting my poster tomorrow at 2pm (P1.01.17), please drop by and say hey if you’re also attending ☺️ Looking forward to hearing about all the brilliant research! 🙌🏻

New paper from my PhD!! 📢

We explored autistic adults’ and professionals’ views on existing self-harm assessment tools.

These tools were not considered acceptable or appropriate for autistic adults who self-harm.

Available here 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Thank you Dan! I will update you soon ☺️

Thank you!! ☺️

Thank you Megan! ☺️

I am pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva yesterday with minor corrections!!! Huge thanks to my supervisors @sarahcassisy.bsky.social & Caroline Richards for their support over the years, and to my examiners Will Mandy & Brian O’Shea for a great experience. #PhDone 🥳🎓

Thank you! The same to you! ☺️

A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached.

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I also started a new position at the University of Sheffield last week, where I’m working on a brilliant project to coproduce health and social care solutions with underserved autistic adults.

While there’s a lot to process at the moment, I’m excited to get stuck in 💪🏻

More broadly, I’m interested in autism research that focuses on:

- Mental health, suicidality, and self-harm
- Improving outcomes and support
- Acceptance and stigma
- Participatory research and coproduction

Hello everyone!

I’ve been very overwhelmed with all the changes and pressures that come with finishing a PhD, but I thought I should finally introduce myself on here ☺️

So, my (nearly finished!) PhD research involved developing a new self-harm assessment tool with and for autistic adults.