Meet the Team

Emeline is an ESRC Centre-UB Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where she leads this project building on her PhD work at UCL. She is committed to participatory research that centres autistic voices and has a meaningful impact on the lives of autistic people.

Eric is an Advisor and Expert by Experience working across health and social care. He is a passionate advocate of the need for expert experience involvement in research and public policy to ensure it represents the people it concerns.

Kana is a practitioner, educator, and researcher at Valtameri specialising in the health and wellbeing of neurodivergent people. Based in Okinawa and working internationally, her work is informed by lived experience of neurodivergence and chronic pain.

Simone was a visiting scholar at UCL, supporting Emeline with developing this guide. Now a Lecturer in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, her work focuses on how autistic individuals understand themselves and their place in society, and how interventions can support this development.

Katrina was one of Emeline’s PhD supervisors and is Director of the UCL Unit for Stigma Research (UCLUS). Her research focuses on stigma associated with disability, mental health challenges, and ageing, with expertise in developing and evaluating interventions to address stigma and self-stigma.

Laura was one of Emeline’s PhD supervisors at UCL and is now her fellowhip mentor at the University of Birmingham, where she is Director of the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER). She champions approaches that involve autistic people as active partners in research across education, employment, health care, and criminal justice.

Kate is Emeline's fellowship mentor at the University of Birmingham, where she leads a research group that works in partnership with young people, caregivers, and educators to co-develop support for neurodivergent young people, drawing on digital technology and arts-informed methods.

Hannah is a Digital Designer and Director of Goood Studio. Through co-design, she brings people into the creative process to shape thoughtful design that helps organisations share their story in ways that feel authentic, inclusive and human.

David loves participating in research projects and brought his lived experience of autism to this project to help reduce the stigma around autism for others.