This facilitated conversation brings together Olivia Matshabane and Monique Botha to examine how power, inclusion, and knowledge operate across neurodiversity research. Drawing on Olivia’s and other African scholars’ scholarship thinking about African neuroethics, cultural humility, and community-centred models of care, and Monique’s scholarship on neurodiversity as a collective, activist-led framework, the discussion will question whose knowledge shapes research agendas and whose lives are marginalised by dominant clinical and academic models. Together, they will explore what more accountable, political and decolonial directions in neurodiversity research might look like.
Neurodiversity
Deborah Chinn on the Feeling at Home photovoice project with people with learning disabilities
Deborah Chinn is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care and also works as a lead clinical psychologist in the Hackney Integrated Learning Disability Service. She uses qualitative and participatory research methods in her research with people with learning disabilities and is currently leading a project that uses conversation analysis to understand shared decision making in health care with people with learning disabilities.
Damian Milton on double empathy and autistic worlds
How have mainstream theories of autism missed the mark by failing to qualitatively explore internal autistic worlds? Sohail speaks to legend among autistic autism researchers Dr Damian Milton about the double empathy problem and its broader implications for neurodivergent and neurotypical-led research.