A lovely positive boost finding out during neurodiversity celebration week that my paper with @drlornaham.bsky.social and Dr Jonathan Vincent was a top-cited paper last year 🥳

In Manchester this week for the #BERA conference. I'll be presenting my research on primary-secondary school transition experiences for neurodivergent pupils. 👩‍🏫

If you're here please come and say hi 👋

#BERA2024 #Educationalresearch #Schooltransitions

Excited to share the first of three animations created collaboratively by a group of amazing autistic / neurodivergent young people, on their feelings moving to secondary school! 🏫

📽️ Watch here: t.ly/4P9Cc 📽️

Led by Dr Jonathan Vincent w/ myself and @drlornaham.bsky.social 🧵1/6

#AutRes #EduSky

Finally, some pupils chose a Statement Sort activity alongside interviews. This again provided structure and opened up discussion about pros / cons of different aspects of school transition. We provide a full list of statements at the end of the study.  8/10

Our most widely used method was a Card Sort (a bit like @TalkingMats). We provided images + brief descriptions of school subjects / experiences and pupils ranked these then talked about why they made their choices.  This created structure and clear boundaries to discussion. 7/10

We then used different creative research methods including Draw-Write-Tell. This allowed pupils to express themselves visually while also reducing direct focus on-from interviewer. Through telling, they interpreted the images to increase authenticity. 5/10

Beyond excited to share my first published PhD paper w/ @DrLornaHam and Dr Jonathan Vincent in ICD journal!

🔗 Read free Open Access t.co/anvXZ6jw05 🔗

This thread will cover participatory approaches used to explore the experiences of autistic neurodivergent UK pupils 🧵 1/10