We are really pleased to have been awarded ESRC funding for a studentship from the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP). The studentship was awarded for a project titled: Falling through the gaps? Investigating the experiences of autistic young people within Care and Education Treatment Reviews. This project is a collaboration between ACoRNS and the …
We are delighted to welcome Dr Ruth Moyse as an ACoRNS Visiting Fellow at the University. Ruth’s Doctoral research at the University of Reading was titled: ‘Missing: The autistic girls absent from mainstream secondary schools’. Ruth drew upon a range of data including from the Department for Education and the NHS and, most crucially, from …
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Professor Sarah Parsons and Dr Hanna Kovshoff have been awarded £135k funding from the ESRC as part of a call for projects to develop innovative methods. ‘Our Stories…’: co-constructing Digital Storytelling methodologies for supporting the transitions of autistic children is a collaboration with Professor Nicola Yuill at the University of Sussex, and local community partners including …
We’re really happy to announce that we will be producing regular newsletters to keep you up to date with what’s going on within the ACoRNS network. Expect to see information about ACoRNS celebrations, updates on our projects, and introductions to our members. The first issue is available to view and download here.
We are delighted that our sister ACoRN@Sussex was formally launched on October 21st 2020 with a live Zoom event attended by over 70 people. ACoRN@ Sussex is led by Professor Nicola Yuill (Psychology) and Dr Jacqui Shepherd (Education) at the University of Sussex. Sharing the same core principles of participatory and creative methods for addressing research questions that matter to …
Three papers based on ACoRNS research have been published recently. All reflect the ACoRNS focus of accessing and respecting children’s views and perspectives, and all are open access meaning that anyone can read them. The paper published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research discusses our Digital Stories methodology for accessing the views of pre-school autistic children. …
The Autism Community Research Network @Southampton [ACoRNS] invites you to join us for a free webinar on: Digital transitions: learning from lockdown for the future This online event will be an opportunity to share the important and innovative research that has been done with Digital Stories during lockdown to support the assessments of children for their EHCPs, and …
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The ACoRNS team have developed some new resources to help professionals and schools learn about children before they transition in September. The resources are based on creating Digital Stories, which are short videos that show who the child is, including their strengths, capabilities and preferences, rather than focusing on their difficulties and challenges. Under the …
This year’s World Autism Day comes at a time of uncertainty for many. Today, more than ever, we are reminded of the importance of community. The Autism Community Research Network @ Southampton (ACoRNS) would like to pay tribute to our early years, primary, secondary, FE and residential setting partners, all of the education practitioners we …
