Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

Today, Nate on VR and autism research was brilliant. Will post it on YouTube early next week.

Understanding neurodivergent attention profiles to harness learning: An evening exploring how learners process information. For educators & inclusion professionals. With drinks & nibbles. Thursday, 26 Feb 2026 6:30pm UCL IOE, London Free Sign-up

Need to sort your act out #Universities wonkhe.com/blogs/univer...

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-... Latest research roundup for autism, neurodivergence generally, and the best/most debate-worthy of the papers. This one, a double issue Dec 25/Jan 26. The studies span education, healthcare, social work, mental health, relationships, and the built environment.

New headphones with dynamic adjustment. Now noise cancellation stops when I start doop-dooing along. I think it thinks I’m talking to folk. I do this a lot.

I am very lucky to have lovely gems passed to me. And I do like an ebook with wry comments in the footnotes. bribrithewriter.com/f/western-st...

doi.org/10.1177/1362... Useful study - are we getting better at finding e.g. autistic women and girls? Yes. 408 people in Scotland. The lifespan male-to-female ratio was approaching equal numbers of each. Do have a read of the detail. So much for 'it's a boy thing', eh?

That’s a must read…

Worth remembering: “SEND is a construct. It’s a convenient fiction. And it’s a neatly-boxed label designed to solve a problem the education system created, and refuses to take responsibility for.” TY @kieranrose.bsky.social theautisticadvocate.com/there-is-no-...

Come celebrate CRAE's leadership transition with us! Join us on 15th Jan to celebrate Anna's 9 years as Director, and to welcome Mel to the helm. Free tickets (must be pre-booked) available here:

Come celebrate CRAE's leadership transition with us! Join us on 15th Jan to celebrate Anna's 9 years as Director, and to welcome Mel to the helm. Free tickets (must be pre-booked) available here:

#WakeUpDeadMan According to the Vicar 8/10 for ecclesiastical accuracy; odd obsession with perma-chasubles.

DON'T MISS this qualitative analysis which found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences. FREE until 25th November www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A qualitative analysis by @kanabaletti.bsky.social et al found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences. FREE until 25th November www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New #CRAEwebinar Last week Jada Brown shared her work on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK.' It was a brilliant webinar. And it's now up on YouTube.

Today's #CRAEwebinar Experiences of navigating university as an autistic people who are also marginalised by their Blackness 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK' with Jada Brown. Thur 6th Nov 4pm gmt

Big CRAE news! From January 2026, @melromualdez.bsky.social will be taking over as CRAE Director, when @annaremington.bsky.social steps down after almost 9 years at the helm! Read about the news here crae.ioe.ac.uk/dr-me... 1/2

🗞️ NEWS 🗞️ We are also sharing the book launch events! Dr Krysia Waldock @krysiawally.bsky.social and I are so excited about co-edited collections that we are sharing the launches of them too - in video format!

New #CRAEresearchSummary @brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities

Our paper has recently been published in @Autism in Adulthood: “Trapped in a No-Win Situation”: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Loneliness tinyurl.com/2yeuch6j @craeioe.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @lauramaycrane.bsky.social @annaremington.bsky.social

"Are Universities Ready to Support Autistic Students? A Call to Increase Coordinated Campus Efforts" by Blaskowitz et al advocates for university departments to enhance #inclusion and support for #autistic students. READ shorturl.at/EgzlU

We are so pleased to announce next month's #CRAEwebinar. Jada Brown will be speaking on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK' Do join us: Thur 6th Nov 4pm

Today, CRAE’s Mel & Brian were delighted to join the City Lit #MentalWealth Festival with the great MH TedXer Shaun Flores and NHS ND Network founder Hannah Jones. We bounced around neurodiversity paradigm & movement, mentoring & employability. Full house. Great crowd… 🤩

🗞️ NEWS 🗞️ Today's first premiere of the 'talking heads' videos is from Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning (co-edited by Dr Krysia Waldock (@krysiawally.bsky.social) and I). We have two co-edited collections that focus on neurodivergence and education, in all its renditions, i.e., in life

We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel. youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw#CRAEwebinar

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

Excited to be at the book launch of Waldock & Keates 2025

Am pleasantly surprised with the CofE with its new ABC.

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid... 1/2

"Just remember, your organic Autistic ways of socialising, communicating, thinking and processing are not disordered or defective or broken; they are just different. You are not broken, you are a wonderful, whole, Autistic person." At Reframing Autism: reframingautism.org.au/service/i-am... #autism

This was a joy to do with @krysiawally.bsky.social 🤩

Acetaminophen & autism. Some thoughts as I read the research. I’m a just ed researcher, I worry about how autism is talked about. Going through the stats to work out what Trump was on about is particularly disheartening; it’s all about risk, as if autism were a disease. (1/6)

Seems like AI - like many of us - has been bullied into being unable to say “I don’t know” www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

Genius conference accessibility thingy - Signed up sessions printed on the back of your name badge!!

Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s #NDinHE3 conference - Neurodiversity in Higher Education Do join Lucy & I for the recording of Neuromentoring live at 2:30. And if you’re around at 4, I’ll be closing us up with a talk on Hopeful Optimism in Higher Ed.

CRAE PhD student, Sam Dexter, presented his research about careers guidance for autistic young people at #AutismEurope 🇮🇪 1/4

What a fabulous book launch! Lovely hearing from so many of the authors of the various chapters! A really valuable resource! "Monotropism is rocket fuel for change. Monotropism is rocket fuel for learning." as quoted by @brianirvine.bsky.social - Indeed! www.igi-global.com/book/neurodi...

Really looking forward to tonight’s launch of ND Ed and Lifelong Learning. Probably still just time to get an invite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Came across my first painted roundabout yesterday. It caused 3 thoughts 1) I feel odd about driving over our flag 2) You could have done it straight you divots 3) Didn’t St G’s mum come from Gaza? Probably not the message intended. 3/10 poor protest.

Writing with @naomijacobs.bsky.social on the importance of centring Autistic people in autism research. Thanks for hosting us @ndconnection.bsky.social #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Research #AutRes ndconnection.co.uk/blog/empower...

Communication is a human right—right? On Sunday, Sept 14, I'll be moderating a panel of four autistic nonspeakers, along with Dr. Vikram Jaswal, discussing how transformative it is when people can access communication that works for them: stanfordneurodiversityproject.stanford.edu/events/day-2...

Our two book launches are coming up... the first one is Monday (8th)! More info and how to sign up below... Book Launch 1: Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning (Hybrid) on Monday, 8 September 2025, between 6.00 pm and 8.15 pm Inkd.in/esEZaRjE

A review found that 90% of autistic people aged over 50 in Britain are either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and the same is likely true in other countries. Our middle-aged & older autistic people deserve proper supports NOW after a lifetime without accommodations. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Our October #CRAEwebinar: Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism, Alexithymia and Psychological Mechanisms. @connortkeating.bsky.social will ask, do autistic & non-autistic adults process emotions differently once alexithymia is in the mix? 2nd Oct 4 pm BST Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

📢 📢 Just published!! Share widely📢 📢 📣 Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners (ebook) has just been published! 👉 You can find more information (including a free sample and chapter abstracts) here: lnkd.in/ee5mbdNa

Our latest #CRAEwebinar is now up on YouTube: Environmental influences on anxiety and depression in autistic young people with the brilliant @schampton.bsky.social youtu.be/8RI4dWB9IQc#CRAEwebinar

“This difference might be because #Autistic people have increased perceptual capacity (so they take in more information) while people with #ADHD are experiencing difficulties in selecting what they want to pay attention to (i.e. excluding distractions).” Seriously interesting research

“I don’t see what could possibly go wrong,” said Sarah Harrow, 41, a mother of two autistic children. “We can just tell them not to be autistic and they’ll be fine. I wish I’d thought of that.”