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‘I am’ Digital Stories The ‘I am’ Digital Stories enable children and young people to introduce themselves and to tell their stories. ‘I am’ Digital Stories of School Transitions: Noah, Nathan, Lewis, Jae, Gisbert, Bobby and Aqtab ‘I am’ Digital Story of Post-School Transitions: Lil Everyday Transitions These Story examples extended the ‘I am’ method …
If you’ve landed here to find the resources to make your own ‘I am’ Digital Stories and ‘We are’ virtual tours, scroll down to find the animated guides and to download the printed guides. But if you’re here to find out what the ‘Our Stories’ project is, click on the pdf below or watch the …
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 …
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 …
Introducing ‘School Daze’ – A new comic co-produced with autistic students from New Forest School to support transitions to secondary school We are really pleased to share a new comic called ‘School Daze’ as part of our Voices through Art project funded by the University of Southampton’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Funding (IAAF). ACoRNS has …
There are many changes that children must negotiate when transitioning between primary and secondary school. These include dealing with new, much larger and busier environments, meeting raised expectations of autonomy and planning, and managing different expectations from up to seven different teachers each day. While some primary to secondary transitions are planned well, many are …
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 …
This is a comment from one of the students at New Forest School who has been feeding back on the comics at our final workshop on November 10th. He was responding to a question about the characters in the comics and how much he liked them. Giving a top liking rating of 5 (out of …
On Friday 5th November, ACoRNS held our fourth event for the annual Festival of Social Science. This year, the event was lead by iPhD student, Verity Ward. Her work explores the opportunities that research can provide for autistic, and otherwise neurodivergent, students to participate in school. She presented ongoing work from two studies where students …
