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Latest News
Collingwood Summer Internship – Charlie South
The below is an update from Charlie South, who has been working with us as part of the Collingwood Summer Internship scheme.
Internship Update
Below is an update from one of our interns, Sarah Shaw.
Expanding the team
Keren has recently joined Durham University as an Assistant Professor in Nerodiversity. Keren’s research focusses on understanding more about how autistic people’s sensory processing differences, and how they experiences sensory environments, relates to their mental health.
Launch of Triple-A Training Tool
Our new Triple-A training tool, designed to support autistic and neurodivergent pupils at school, is being launched on the 24th of March 2022.
New research – Barriers to PE at school for autistic pupils
Why do autistic pupils engages less with PE at school? We are doing new research in to the barriers that autistic young people can face when trying to access PE at school. We need autistic teenagers and their parents or carers to tell us what’s good and bad about PE in UK schools for this important new study.
Foundations for the Future: Participatory research on neurodiversity and development at Durham University
We are absolutely delighted to announce that the team at the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development have been successful in securing over £12,300 in funding from Research England to support the development of participatory research on neurodiversity and development.
Advancing Interdisciplinary research on neurodiversity in Durham
We are thrilled that the Centre has been awarded funding for an Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) ‘development project’ to run in Michaelmas Term of 2022.
New Research Assistant joins the team
Bio for Juliette Westbrook
Increasing awareness of neurodiversity: A new policy for supporting a neurodiverse and inclusive student population in their learning
We are thrilled to announce that the Centre has been awarded funding from Durham University’s Equality and Diversity Fund to develop guidance and policies to support positive inclusion of autistic and neurodivergent students at the University.
‘Triple A: Attention, Arousal, and Anxiety in the classroom’ funding acquired
We recently secured funding from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account and from Strategic Priority Funding to develop a new resource on ‘Triple A: Attention, Arousal, and Anxiety in the classroom’ focusing on working with teachers to support autistic pupils.
"Why do some children become anxious" seminar recording available
Anxiety disorders are the most common emotional disorder affecting children and over the past decades we have seen an increase in the proportion of children experiencing problematic anxiety. In this talk Professor Dodd discusses whether it is possible to identify, when children are pre-schoolers, those who are at risk for experiencing problems with anxiety and what we might be able to do to help.
Interpersonal Mechanisms of Social Disability Seminar
We are thrilled to have hosted Professor Noah Sasson (University of Texas at Dallas) who gave a wonderful talk on interpersonal mechanisms of social disability in autistic adults.
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