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Eli Genovesi
@eligenovesi.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ King's College London IoPPN & freelance consultant
Striving for #EducationForAll in low-&middle-income countries
Views are my own & mostly debatable except for those on Italian cuisine
Personal website eligenovesi.wixsite.com/elisa-genovesi
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🚨New publication alert:
In this editorial my PhD students and I reflect on our challenges and relative successes in incorporating community involvement in our autism research.
The editorial is openly available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the title of the editorial, published in the journal Autism. The editorial title is: "Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities" Paragraph setting out the main challenges relating to community involvement in PhD student projects, as follows: Community involvement is not without challenge and difficulties are commonly reported in recruiting representatives, building meaningful connections, maintaining engagement, funding community partners and implementing their recommendations. These challenges can be more pronounced in PhD student projects. The primary focus of a PhD is to independently complete a specific, often narrowly defined research project that contributes new knowledge to the field, within a specific timeframe and often with limited research funding. The independence requirement of PhD work may seem at odds with the requirements of active collaboration with community members, making it hard to strike a balance between leading the project and allowing collaborators to feel ownership of it. The limited timeline, of just three full-time years in some countries, can make it difficult for PhD students to ensure meaningful community engagement and to follow community advisors’ suggestions within the narrow scope and timeframe. Without funding, PhD students may also find it difficult to conduct community-engaged research that pays people appropriately for their contributions and time (Pickard et al., 2022). Finally, the early career stage of PhDs means that connections with community experts are often formed during, rather than prior to, the PhD, limiting the scope for early engagement.
December 2, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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INTERVENTION LAUNCH for #EducationForAll!

Materials for our co-developed #intervention MIDDLE, “Mainstreaming and #Inclusion of children with Developmental #Disabilities in Learning in Ethiopia” are now #FreelyAvailable online, fully #OpenAccess!

www.thesparkproject.net/middle-inter...
MIDDLE Intervention | SPARK Project
www.thesparkproject.net
June 24, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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rosahoekstra.bsky.social
New paper alert: many governments, non-governmental and research organisations have developed materials to raise community awareness of developmental disabilities incl #autism and intellectual disability but an overview of such resources was lacking #AutRes ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/
Screenshot of the abstract of the paper Genovesi et al (2024), the full paper can be found here: https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-024-00627-9
February 29, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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rosahoekstra.bsky.social
Are you interested in developing causal modeling skills in a PhD focused on poverty, stigma and quality of life in families with children with developmental disabilities in Ethiopia and Kenya? Apply for this PhD! drive-health.org.uk/projects-2024 (project 1, deadline 10 March) #AutRes #academicsky
Screenshot of the webpage https://www.drive-health.org.uk/projects-2024 advertising the PhD studentship "Causal mechanisms underlying the association between poverty, stigma, social exclusion and quality of life among families with children with developmental disabilities in Ethiopia and Kenya"
February 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Looking for a Christmas good deed? How about supporting our project for the education of kids with autism and developmental disabilities?
We only have time until 31st December to cover the final budget gap! #AutRes

www.gofundme.com/f/phd-projec...
www.gofundme.com
December 22, 2023 at 7:27 AM
eligenovesi.bsky.social
Looking for a Christmas good deed? How about supporting our project for the education of kids with autism and developmental disabilities?
We only have time until 31st December to cover the final budget gap!

www.gofundme.com/f/phd-projec...
PhD project aiding schooling for Ethiopian kids!, organized by Elisa Genovesi
(Italiano a fondo pagina) ENDING 31st December 2023! Help me fin… Elisa Genovesi needs your support for PhD project aiding schooling for Ethiopian kids!
www.gofundme.com
December 21, 2023 at 3:14 PM
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New paper! bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
What do we mean when we say caregivers of children with developmental disabilities should be 'empowered', and how can it be achieved? #AutRes
December 18, 2023 at 2:14 PM
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So pleased to see this out: The @journalautism.bsky.social special issue Autism Research in a Global Context is now available online, showcasing 19 papers from contexts underrepresented in the #AutRes literature. In this editorial we share what we have learnt 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Screenshot of the title of the editorial introducing the special issue 'Autism Research in a Global Context' published in the journal Autism. The editorial and special issue are dedicated to the memory of Dr Muideen Bakare
November 20, 2023 at 1:32 PM
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Are you the parent of an autistic child in the UK or China? Please consider our new study exploring the role of extended family in caring for autistic children. Details here:
qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... This work can inform designing better support systems for the whole family #AutRes
November 22, 2023 at 10:17 AM
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It's not the first thing I have written that will fed into my Thesis but this feels more real than ever!!!
#AcWriMo #PhDSky #AcademicSky
A blank MS Word page File title: Thesis Chapter 1 Page Heading: Chapter 1
November 14, 2023 at 10:19 AM
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Anyone got a neurodiversity paradigm / autistic-authored definition of autism that's suitable for citing in an academic paper? Even something that's slightly less useless than the DSM-V would be good - I'm getting fed up of starting every paper with it and refuting it...
November 14, 2023 at 10:10 AM
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Theory of Change Map Refining in progress… with little sleepy helpers! #PhDSky #AcademicSky Public Health
Wooden table, with large paper sheets with writing and arrows on them. In the foreground, a grey cat is sitting on a wooden chair Wooden table, with large paper sheets with writing and arrows on them and a grey cat sitting on a wooden chair. In the foreground, a small black and brown dog is sleeping in her dog bed
November 9, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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I haven’t worked around a cat for a while. I’ve missed working like this

#PhDSky
I’m sitting with a grey cat and laptop both on my legs
November 8, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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Out now! 3 preprints on 3 qualitative analyses of data from 39 stakeholder interviews on including children with developmental disabilities in Ethiopian mainstream primary schools: is it good? is the context ready? how to implement it?

#AcademicSky #AutRes #EduSky #PhDSky
Stakeholder Perspectives on Including Children with Developmental Disabilities in Mainstream Primary...
Appendices and figures can be found within the preprints. There are no other supplementary materials. The purpose of the project is to link three manuscripts from the same qualitative study, available...
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November 5, 2023 at 8:23 AM
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Our Autism ResearCH (ARCH) Seminar series is back for another year of fantastic ECRs sharing their research! Our first speaker is Hannah De Laet, presenting her results of a survey with 400 autistic people focusing on the double empathy problem. Join us on the 15th Nov at 2pm shorturl.at/ET469
ARCH Seminar Series
Join us for our monthly Autism ResearCH seminars - a friendly platform for early career researchers to share their recent research.
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October 26, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky
October 28, 2023 at 8:39 AM
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4 top tips for people new to #bluesky. 😊⬇️

1. Find a friend and use who they follow to get started.
2. Follow lots of ppl to populate your TL.
3. Post/repost/like to help people find you. No weird algorithms here so it's all chronological.
4. Check out feeds using the # and pin your favourites.
October 28, 2023 at 8:36 AM
eligenovesi.bsky.social
Can someone please explain what liking a feed does? If I like a feed but not pin it will posts be shown in my Following feed?
October 26, 2023 at 6:04 AM
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Today is my birthday, I'd love if people would share my art 🥰🖤
October 21, 2023 at 5:36 PM
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How can teachers create visuals and educational materials with what they have? Here are some of our trainees’ creations today!

#AutRes #EduSky
A plant in a piece of plastic bottle with some send, and a sticky note with some writing in Amharic A green shoe string fit through holes of many blue bottle caps, for counting. On a side, some nuts from a tree Three red plates holding different objects: bottle caps in one, small stones in another, nuts from trees in the third From left to right: a hand holding a sticky notes with an A on it, a piece of bottle holding sand, one holding water, one rocks, a sticky notes with the first letter of the Amharic alphabet wrote on it with glue and send, a shoe string holding wooden circular objects of different colors, as a necklace, for counting
October 21, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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Teachers hard at work in the first group activity of this second day of training on developmental disabilities here in Addis Ababa!

#AutRes #EduSky
A large school room, with groups of people sitting around 5 wooden tables, talking, listening, writing
October 21, 2023 at 6:35 AM
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suereviews.bsky.social
Reposting for all the new autism researchers who’ve joined of late.

Welcome!

Please check out my feed, like it, pin it (so you can easily check what the craic is whenever you want)

And post to it! #AutRes
suereviews.bsky.social Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · Oct 1
Welcome to Bluesky, new followers!

Lots of you might be interested in the Autism Research feed I made

It collects everything posted in the preceding 7 days that uses #AutRes or the words autism & research

Your posts will be there too, just use words or the hashtag

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 20, 2023 at 10:45 PM
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Before the programme, we held community awareness events in both schools

Hundreds of parents of children enrolled in the schools attended and listened to the testimony of a mother of an autistic child

They then spread the word and families of children with DD came to enroll them in the schools!!
A large room with a few hundreds of men and women sitting on red and blue plastic chairs
October 18, 2023 at 7:17 AM
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Experienced triallist will probably shrug, but this has been a big step for the SPARK project team and for me personally: The SPARK trial evaluating the WHO Caregiver Skills Training in Ethiopia and Kenya is formally registered! Full details here: pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay...
#AutRes
a screenshot of the SPARK trial registration page on the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry website
October 17, 2023 at 8:01 PM
eligenovesi.bsky.social
Last Saturday we started piloting our teacher training programme on autism and developmental disabilities in two schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

Great turnout and engagement, including from principals: excellent premises for more effective inclusion!

#EduSky #AutRes
A room full of men and women sitting on plastic chairs in small circles A corner of a room where a man can be seen standing, witnessing the discussion of a group of seven people, sitting around a table
October 17, 2023 at 3:48 PM