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🤝 How I Can Help

• Organisational consultancy: reviewing practice, guidance and environments through a neuro-affirming, rights-based lens
• Co-creating resources: guidance documents, e-books, infographics, animations, games and training materials, written in accessible, community-friendly language
• Research advisory and co-production: lived experience input, advisory group membership, data analysis support and co-authorship
• Critical friend and editorial review: reading papers, books and handouts for neuro-affirming language, accessibility and accuracy
• One-to-one consultation: for professionals and families wanting to explore monotropism, Autistic burnout and barriers to education

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🌱 Current Roles

• Thriving Autistic CLG (Ireland): Communications and Community Lead. I have facilitated the Discovery Programme for late-identified Autistic adults for two years, led monthly post-identification family workshops for parents and carers since 2023, and led the parent and carer room at the monthly meet-ups since 2025. I was project manager and one of the Autistic writers for the award-winning animations Discovering You’re Autistic and Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic, funded by Rethink Ireland.
• Stimpunks Foundation: Co-Creative Director, including the Map of Monotropic Experiences and Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
• NeuroHub Community: Co-Director and Community Facilitator, including the Autistic Mental Health Conference and the Re-Storying Autism course with David Gray-Hammond.
• GROVE Education UK: Education, Training and Resource Specialist.
• Writing The Dawn: Creative Community Lead, supporting nature and science writing workshops with Barb Melville and leading Gather and Write, our weekly creative and body doubling sessions.
• Monotropism.org: content researcher and resource creator, working with Fergus Murray. I co-author the seasonal monotropism research round-ups (2024 onwards), gathering new research, books and resources for the community.

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🎓 Universities & Research

• York St John University: Building Neurodivergent Cultures of Regulation, with Amy Skinner and Kay Aldred. I delivered Cavendish Space workshops, supported data analysis, and co-authored the project report and guidance (2026).
• King’s College London: member of a Monotropism advisory group led by Bronagh McCoy (2026).
• University of Birmingham, Kate Woodcock Research Group: community partner on ASPbelong, an EU-funded international project developing Augmented Social Play, an arts-based, group digital intervention to strengthen neurodivergent young people’s sense of belonging and wellbeing (2025 onwards).
• University of Birmingham, School of Psychology: member of the steering group for research on visual comfort in Autistic and non-Autistic children, led by Dr Cathy Manning with Aamina Khan. I reviewed study materials, information sheets and recruitment plans for families and schools (2025).
• University of Manchester and NHS, CO-ASSIST OCD research project: member of the parent advisory group, working with Research Associate Emma Sowden and the university’s Mental Health Research Group, on research identifying acceptable support strategies for parents of children and young people experiencing OCD (2021 to 2025). The project’s findings are shared in the animation Identifying support strategies for parents of children with OCD (2022). This continued into the NIHR-funded follow-on study, Development of a programme to reduce burden and distress in parents and carers of children with OCD, led by Dr Rebecca Pedley with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (2023 to 2025).
• Professor Melanie Nind (University of Southampton): consultation on an upcoming project to support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (2025).
• Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ) research: gave feedback on Richard Woods’s List of Potential Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ) Research Topics (2024), alongside Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Nick Chown, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Fergus Murray and others (read the list, watch the video).
• Birmingham Newman University, University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University: guest and visiting lecturer on teacher training, education, SEND, the neurodiversity paradigm and inclusive education.
• Critical friend and editorial support for authors and researchers, including work on special interests and gestalt language processing.
• Member of Erin Manning’s Reading and Gathering collective, exploring Deleuzian and posthumanist thought together (2026).

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🌐 Charities & Community Organisations

• Muiriosa Foundation (Ireland): Project Penguin, with Ruth Connolly and Jessica K Doyle. I supported this project for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and co-authored its presentations and resources (2025 to 2026).
• PANS PANDAS UK: member of the Education Steering Committee. I founded and led the Neurodivergent PANS/PANDAS Working Party, co-created awareness resources and am credited as a contributor to the charity’s local authority guidance (2024 to 2026). The charity’s PANS, PANDAS and Neurodivergence page was written in collaboration with me and hosts the webinar I co-presented with Laura Hellfeld.
• Diverse Pathways Collective: member of Kerry Murphy’s collective reimagining early childhood development guidance through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, contributing to working groups and resources (2026).
• Spectrum Gaming: team member (2023 to 2025), contributing to their Epic Autism Resources collection; consultant and co-author, with their community team, of the Barriers to Education website (launched September 2025), and author of the Autistic burnout sections of Autism Understood, their website for young people (from May 2023). I also joined their Greater Manchester suicide prevention training sub-group (2023).
• The PDA Space: commissioned e-books, blogs, infographics and Summit resources (2023 to 2024).
• Weird Pride Day (4 March): committee member alongside Fergus Murray. I co-wrote a Weird Pride Day blog with Fergus, shared ideas for schools and contributed Weird Pride Day activities to the Rhyming Multisensory Stories teaching calendar (2024 onwards).
• NINE (Neurodivergent Infinity Network of Educators), Canada: member and listed community partner, contributing blogs to this international network advocating for human rights-based, neuroaffirmative education.
• Story Massage Programme: trained Story Massage practitioner, and member since 2024, invited by co-founder Mary Atkinson to join the specialist team that supports members.
• Autscape: volunteer Discord moderator and facilitator for Autscape’s online events (2024 and 2025).

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🏅 Awards & Recognition

• 2026: Finalist with Thriving Autistic, National Diversity Awards, Community Organisation Award for Disability. I attended the awards ceremony in Liverpool in September 2026
• 2026: The Thriving Autistic animations I co-wrote won an award at the iDEAL International Film Festival, were finalists at the National Diversity Awards and AIMAFF, and were official selections at the Neurocinema Neurodivergent Film Festival and SkipTown Playhouse Film Festival (see the animations and awards)
• 2025: Finalists with GROVE and NeuroHub Community
• 2024, 2025 and 2026: personally nominated for the National Diversity Awards for my work with Autistic Realms (2025 nomination; 2026 nomination, Positive Role Model Award for Disability)

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My chapters, articles, guest blogs and e-books are gathered on Writing & Resources, with my full academic publications list on More Realms. You can find my community partnerships on Partnerships, and my speaking history on Talks & Conferences.