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I am the Research Manager in the National Autism Programme, which is part of the Learning Disability and Autism Programme at NHS England. I am also still working on my previous postdoctoral research project (with Dr. Cathy Manning) in my spare time. I am also the current host of the PsychologiCALL podcast, which is currently on a break.

I am autistic, and I have ADHD (both adult diagnoses). I am passionate about increasing the involvement of autistic people into research about autism and about supporting other neurodivergent people to thrive in research careers. I am open to talking about my experiences both from a personal and a research perspective!

Postdoctoral research

I am exploring sensory processing in autistic and non-autistic children using behavioural tasks and computational modelling. I am currently recruiting children and adolescents aged 6-14. You can learn more about the study I am running by checking out the two related pre-registration documents, find them here, and here.

PhD research

My PhD research (with Dr. Josh Balsters at Royal Holloway, University of London) focused on using a Bayesian approach to explore individual differences in reward processing and contagion of value preferences, using computational modelling and neuroimaging (fMRI). Find out more here. I submitted my thesis in May 2021, and passed my viva with no corrections in July 2021. My viva examiners were Dr. Joe Bathelt, and Dr. Rebecca Lawson.

Podcasts

I am the current host for the PsychologiCALL podcast, and have recorded one full season, with season 4 currently on pause, I have some episodes ready to release and will start recording these again soon. Watch this space! Find out more about the podcast, and listen to all the episodes here or on your podcast app!

If you’ve got a paper that you would like to come onto the podcast to talk about, please don’t hesitate to email me, I’d love to hear from you!

I also supervised Georg Dayanc in 2022, my project student for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) at the University of Reading. Georg is also autistic, and developed a podcast called NeuroDives: Diving into Neurodiversity. Season 1 was created as part of the UROP project, and it focuses on all things autism. I also won UROP supervisor of the year for this project!