Rose Matthews Research
@Autism_R_and_D
Researching #Autistic people’s experiences of menopause | in(ter)dependence | ageing | loss, grief, and the end of life. http://www.rosematthewsresearch.com
#Thread An important part of reclaiming my life after late #Autism diagnosis has involved rekindling my #research career which burned out years before. Peer reviewed papers representing all 3 phases of the Bridging the Silos #Autistic #menopause study have now been published. 1/
Research teams should communicate with a wider audience about public involvement and research, using a broad range of approaches that are accessible and appealing. Find out more about the 'Communication' standard and reflect on whether you're meeting it: sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/pi-…
Research Fellow (Grade 7) fixed term for 24 months at University of Sussex jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/res… Important project, please take a look:
We're investigating community mental health services and we want to hear from you 📢 We want to know what you think high-quality care looks like for people with severe mental illness. Tell us here 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/8755/comm…
New @MarmotIHE review on #healthequity and #housing calls for pilot projects to be trialled in some of the more than 50 #MarmotPlaces across the UK. The property sector must put #healthequity at the core of all new housing developments across the UK bmj.com/content/387/bm…
Such an important research topic. I remember my transition to adolescence vividly even though it’s over 50 years ago now. #MentalHealth #camouflaging #autism
🚨Camouflaging in neurodivergent and neurotypical girls at the transition to adolescence and its relationship to mental health: A participatory methods research study - McKinney - JCPP Advances - Wiley Online Library acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Preprint now available: “It's like all of my senses and my body become more awakened”: Autistic adult’s experiences of attending live music. Co-authored with Gemma Herbert & Abbie Smith. Thanks to the Autistic adults who shared their experiences with us 💖 doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…
UK employers’ “intentions to hire autistic ppl & make adjustments to hiring process were high” but barriers: knowledge of autism & of opportunities & how to do so. “concerns about workplace relationships, productivity & need for training & adjustments to hiring processes. Free👇
New ShARL article led by Dr Marianne Day: Understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by UK employers doi.org/10.1177/136236… We used COM-B and TDF behaviour change models to gain insights @journalautism
📣New @jrf_uk research on ethnicity and persistent very deep poverty*. Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African families are 5x more like to experience it than white families. We wanted to dig into the reasons…
Not only must we ensure adequate funding of palliative care specialists, GPs & DNs so that suffering can be pre-empted or assuaged, we must help everyone to see that palliative care is their right, & not the privilege of certain people, diagnoses or life expectancies.
My direct, heartfelt appeal in today’s @guardian to @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD. If you sincerely care about dying people, surely you will now publicly & urgently commit to proper funding for our threadbare palliative care?
Today we've launched a new requirement that all applicants must demonstrate how their research will address existing inequalities in health and social care as a condition of funding. Applicants will now be required to show how inclusion is being built into all stages of the…
We are looking for people who are: - Autistic (self-ID is OK) - going through the menopause - Fit into at least one of these groups: - from an ethnic minority - have not had given birth - have a learning disability You also need to: - Live in the UK - be aged 16+ (1/3)
Disability barriers autistic girls face in secondary education: A systematic review journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
🗨️"Ontologically, the neurodiversity paradigm argues that neurodivergent people are different—not flawed, impaired, or disordered... Epistemologically, [it] argues that neurodivergent people should be central to the creation of knowledge..." Read free: …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
I appreciate all the feedback (including the challenges) to the work I'm doing with @goranhenriks & others around how we enable deep, profound change as well as continuous incremental change. So it was great to read this thought provoking piece by @sonjabl which compares our…
This was easily some of the most harrowing work I've done to date in my career but people's stories are so important, and it's about time that we tackle the epidemic of violence that autistic people face in our lives including in intimate relationships.
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT: CW: Abuse. Two papers out today in @AutismAdulthood from our @VAMHN funded project on supporting autistic adults who have experienced intimate violence. The first paper focuses on meaning-making, and the second on intervention 🧵Thread (& links) incoming.
Last night, I had a chat with ChatGPT. I'm still not sure what to make of it... Here's how it went. Abbreviations are my only edits. Me: Hi ChatGPT What can you tell me about Dr Kathryn Mannix? [Deep breath... & the screen types quickly before my eyes...] 1/
NEW PREPRINT ALERT! We used an AI image generator to understand social stereotypes of autism and prejudice towards autistic people. The results are... Frankly wild. A (kind of bizarre) thread. osf.io/preprints/osf/…
A few days ago an editorial titled "The future of research on autism stigma - towards multilevel, contextual & global came out in Frontiers in Psychiatry. It discusses the current state of research in autism stigma and prejudice. (1/) frontiersin.org/journals/psych…