Prof Francesca Happé

Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: tinyurl.com/IUonlinetask

We are saying goodbye to our fantastic 2023/24 placement students. Thank you @lewis_hannah18 & @MariaJoseRodPin for your amazing contributions to the #CatalogueMHM & landscaping project. You have been awesome additions to the team & will be missed! Good luck with your final year!

The first, by @HappeLab and myself, published in @JDisSoc covers our research findings with 149 survey participants - autistic educators, past and present, in a range of roles in schools, including teachers, TAs, Headteachers etc. 2/8 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎉 Huge congratulations to our fantastic #PALMteam RA Eliza Hamdorf for a stellar poster presentation on the co-production of our upcoming platform, the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, with Lived Experience Experts at the @MQmentalhealth @DatamindUK Data Science meeting!🌟

Interested in doing a #PhD about #autism? Dr Julia Cook and I have a project on self-compassion and autistic young people in the @KCL_MRCDTP catalogue - apply, just a week to go, deadline 1pm 29/10/2024!

There is just over 2 weeks left to apply for 2025 entry. Hear from MRC DTP student @chloecarrick_ about what their highlight has been so far! #MRCDTP25

If you are interested in doing a #PhD on #autism check out this opportunity, including a great project with me and the wonderful Dr Julia Cook on compassion-focused mental well-being approaches for autistic young people

Help make a difference today. Watch the #EDGIUK leads @psychgenomics and Professor Janet Treasure, and mental health advocate @HopeVirgo among others discuss the importance of #EDGIUK and how to join today. edgiuk.org. @beatED @NIHRresearch @NIHRMaudsleyBRC

Thank you for organising such a great event and for the opportunity to present our work and hear more about other wonderful projects!

Thanks to everyone who came to our #Autism ResearCH (ARCH) showcase on Wednesday at the @SGDPCentreKCL! We had early career presenters from @KingsCollegeLon, @KU_Leuven, @UniofBath, @SussexUni, @GoldsmithsUoL, @ucl, @UniofOxford and more🧠

A great honor to be joining University of Oxford and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues and building new collaborations on cognitive, clinical and developmental neuroscience using MEG and OPM

INSAR Early Career Committee (ECC) is looking for new members! If you are interested in supporting other autism researchers, working with a great team and running some fab initiatives then do consider applying. Happy to chat if people have questions docs.google.com/forms/d/1tqKR6…

Stunned by this - Melting Point has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

I’m one of the researchers working on this project. We are a team of researchers based at the University of Hertfordshire and University of Birmingham and we’ve been asked by @PDASociety to do this research.

We want to hear from adults who self-identify or have a diagnosis referencing extreme/pathological demand avoidance (EDA/PDA) or would likely meet the criteria, even if you don’t have a diagnosis or don’t agree with the terminology or framing.

📢 Call for participants for a study on demand avoidance You can take part if you: ✅ are aged 18+ ✅struggle to undertake everyday tasks and experience a stress response to demands Take the survey here (closes 13th Sept): bit.ly/3YYjpGN

Well done Jessie - so we’ll deserved!

Interested in autism and ageing? These sessions are free for all to attend (just need to register with INSAR, which is free). I’m looking forward to talking about our ageing-related work from the @ReSpectLabKCL and colleagues with @HappeLab!

Me and @HappeLab are looking forward to presenting our session on Monday, July 22 (9am EDT, 2pm UK) on ‘Mental Health and Well-Being on the Autism Spectrum in Older Age’. We wrapped up preparing our slides today - lots of exciting content! Info and sign up below ⬇️

All welcome next Tuesday 1pm for what will be a fascinating talk from @NickPuts on the sensory features of ASD Will be great foil to our recent talk from Nick's longtime @JohnsHopkins collaborator @SHMostofsky on motor features @HappeLab Teams link👇 kcl.ac.uk/events/sensory…

How women IMAGINE they'd react to sexual harassment is wildly different from how they ACTUALLY react when harassed. Julie Woodzicka & @ProfLaFrance created sexual harassment in lab and tested how women reacted when harassed by a male interviewer in real time. What happened:🧵