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We conduct research on topics that matter to neurodivergent people and their allies, through working in collaboration with #autistic and #adhd people with or without learning disabilities and syndromes. Our group is based at UCL's Brain Sciences.
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Our book is now 6 months old and alrady best seller in 3 categories. It captures the story and outcomes of a truly collaborative effort to improve our workforce training curricula at #AnnaFreud making them genuinely neuro-inclusive by authentic coproduction and codelivery.

🧠 Breaking the Buzzwords: Trauma, Neurodivergence, and the Path to Equitable Practice 📅 Date: 2 Dec 2025 📍 Location: Anna Freud Centre, London This is more than a conference — it's a call to reimagine what trauma-informed care Email [email protected] for more and expression of interest

New paper draft✨ ND students on burnout, dread & identity loss in school. Co-led w/ ADHD & autistic youth. #ADHD #Autism #Burnout #Depression

October 2025

proud co-author! team work, deeply coproduced and codelivered with our young coresearchers. Funded by MRC / UKRI with most amazing partners from Kings College /Chief Edmund Sonuga Barke Stay tuned for open access link. #newresearch #autism #adhd

We are looking for #Autistic students aged 11-16 who attend mainstream secondary schools in #England to tell us more about their school's mental health promotion and support efforts and experiences of school counselling/therapy support Link for parents to sign up 👉 shorturl.at/0ifo3

Proud to share our latest RE-STAR publication In Press at JCPP "Emotional burden in school as a source of mental health problems associated with ADHD and/or autism: Development and validation of a new co-produced self-report measure"

Healthcare professionals, educators, researchers, parents, therapists, policymakers — and anyone invested in building more inclusive, affirming systems for neurodivergent people. This conference is for you.

🧠 Breaking the Buzzwords: Trauma, Neurodivergence, and the Path to Equitable Practice 📅 Date: 2 Dec 2025 📍 Location: Anna Freud Centre, London This is more than a conference — it's a call to reimagine what trauma-informed care Email [email protected] for more and expression of interest

🧠✨ How do neurodivergent young people manage emotional distress—on their own terms? We have a new paper completed. (artwork from one of the ND youth who got involved)

www.neurodiversity-research.org/blog/2470723...

‪#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is all about community—so here’s what ours has been up to: 🧠 3 papers accepted this week (it’s only Tuesday 😅) 📚 6 papers in press/accepted this month All papers co-produced, codelivered and lived-experience-driven We’re not researching on people—we’re working with them.

thank you!

👉 You’ll leave with deepened insight, practical tools, a renewed commitment to challenge systems that retraumatise—and help build ones that heal. What to expect; 🎤 Lived-experience voices- names TBC soon! 📚 Research-informed practice 🤝 Cross-sector dialogue ⚡️ Embodied, compassionate wisdom

new paper from our team in collaboration with researchers from Uni of Liverpool and Edge Hill University #research #new #autism #mentalhealth journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@grrand-team.bsky.social has killer blogs - critical disability view, lots of love and EVIDENCE based follow their profile and read here more www.neurodiversity-research.org/blog/2462709...

🧠 Excited supporting UCL ERB Centre Annual Seminar! 📅 4 June | 🕙 10:00–17:00 | 📍 Central House, London ✨ Keynote: Dr. Bridget Goosby ⚡ Flash Talks incl @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social 🏆 EDI Awards 🤝 Inclusive research in action free booking here www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-centre...

The Dark Side of Positive Behavioural Support Read our new blog here www.neurodiversity-research.org/blog/2462709... The time has come to shift the conversation about behaviours, championing a framework that acknowledges ad responds to the inherent worth of every person.

"We’ve seen ripples of change”: the impact of the National Autism Trainer Programme #NATPmentalhealth www.annafreud.org/news/weve-se...

🖊️ Written by our team member Alexis Quinn, the blog draws from her forthcoming auto-ethnographic research — bringing lived experience, academic insight, and systemic critique together. 🔗 “The Dark Side of Positive Behavioural Support” www.neurodiversity-research.org/blog/2462709...

Because trauma isn’t just something people carry—it’s something systems create.

SAVE THE DATE 2nd of December 2025 🧠💥 This is more than just a conference. It's a call to reimagine trauma-informed and experience sensitive care through the lens of neurodivergence, and equity.

‘There is a need for a more neuro-inclusive and personalised approach in CAMHS. Further research, funding and training are urgently needed to ensure support is accessible, timely and effective for autistic young people’ 👏👏

new paper from our team in collaboration with researchers from Uni of Liverpool and Edge Hill University #research #new #autism #mentalhealth journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Autism Is Not an Epidemic — a Call to Rethink the Systems, Not the People www.neurodiversity-research.org/blog/2456448...

New important study!

A day at the Parliament all things #siblings #disability #care

@grrand-team.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/os...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... open access @grrand-team.bsky.social

Snapshot of some wonderful team members.

www.neurodiversity-research.org/new-book

www.neurodiversity-research.org @grrand-team.bsky.social is now on Bluesky Follow team- UCL's Group for Research In Relationships And NeuroDiversity, working closely with #AnnaFreud's education and training division.

HUMANITY AND INNOVATION ARE KEY AT EVERY #ANNAFREUD OPERATION. And this was a big big operation! A pleasure working (2021-2025) on this programme with wonderful AF teams, independent autistic folks content developers+trainers and ofcourse At-Autism partners. www.annafreud.org/news/humanit...

Autistic joy time

and some ace new papers coming out soon too ! follow @grrand-team.bsky.social Lovely humans working with so much passion with a sharp focus on the forgotten foundation on mental health: RELATIONSHIPS CONNECTIONS BELONGING as well as translational science to improve mental health interventions