ACoRNS News

On Wednesday 9th November 4pm-6pm, ACoRN@Southampton and ACoRN@Sussex will present a joint webinar for the ESRC Festival of Social Science. The event, “Our Stories: digital methods for supporting transitions of autistic children and young people”, will showcase research which further develops an innovative methodological approach – Digital Stories – to support autistic children and young …

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Many congratulations to our ACoRNS students who have either been recognised for their contributions through the award of prizes, or have been awarded their Doctorates: Chloe East received a commendation for outstanding presentation at the Psychology PGR conference . Chloe was talking about her research on the experiences of transitions of autistic girls and the …

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Sarah Parsons & Hana Kovshoff have been awarded a further £12.5k of funding from the University’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. The project is titled: ‘Animated ‘How to…’ video guides for creating Digital Stories in practice‘ and runs for 10 months from May 1st 2022 through to end February 2023. It builds on our current ESRC …

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We want to extend a very warm welcome to Dr Anne Collis who has joined ACoRNS as a Visiting Research Fellow. Anne’s interest in research is its potential to change how people make sense of themselves and the world around them. Until recently she located herself firmly in the world of social activism, valuing the …

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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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We are delighted to welcome Dr Asha Ward to the ACoRNS team. Asha is the new Research Fellow on our ESRC-funded ‘Our Stories’ project which is extending our Digital Stories methodology to new settings to support the transitions and understanding of autistic children, young people and their families. Asha recently completed her EngD at Bournemouth University …

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