Birmingham Psychology Autism Research Team

Very excited to announce our CRAE Annual Lecture - Time to Deliver Laura Crane on how we can build a future where autistic people’s rights, needs, and voices truly shape policy. 22nd June at 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-to-deli… 1/2

Really excited to share we’ve been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant ✨ This funding helps us take our co-developed autism screening tool from research into healthcare, improving access, equity & efficiency in diagnosis for children & adults birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/univ…

Fab news! Our paper "The conceptualisation, experience, and recognition of emotion in autism: Differences in the psychological mechanisms involved in autistic and non-autistic emotion recognition" has now been published in Autism Research⭐ Summary: 🧵1 doi.org/10.1002/aur.70…

We found that autistic and non-autistic adults produced different facial expressions, even when facial structure and alexithymia were taken into account... 🧵9

Autistic and non-autistic people may express emotions in ways that are different but equally meaningful - almost like speaking different languages. So, what has sometimes been interpreted as difficulties for autistic people may reflect a two-way misunderstanding...🧵17

Great news🚨Our article "Mismatching expressions: spatiotemporal and kinematic differences in autistic and non-autistic facial expressions" is published in Autism Research⭐Thanks to @Jennifer_L_Cook @Sophie_Sowden & Holly O'Donoghue. Summary below:🧵1 doi.org/10.1002/aur.70…

Very happy to see this published! Registered report & huge group effort with @Brain_apps, @thepsychologist, @ConnorTKeating looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2. See thread below for some of our findings

I am incredibly honoured (& shocked) to receive the Best PhD Dissertation Award from INSAR! This work wouldn’t exist without amazing mentors, colleagues, lived experience experts and participants! Special thanks to @Jennifer_L_Cook for her mentorship- I feel so grateful and lucky

Thrilled that our article on knowledge, explicit stigma, and implicit biases towards autism across Hong Kong, the UK, and the US is now published #OpenAccess in @journalautism⭐Was so great working with @Yu_Lin_Cheng & Patrick Dwyer on this! 🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1177/136236…

@ConnorTKeating @Jennifer_L_Cook @ExpPsychSoc @DrRebeccaBrewer Congratulations Connor! Very well-deserved recognition

Eeek! Thrilled to share this news! It's an incredible honor, and I'm deeply grateful for all the support I've received - especially from @Jennifer_L_Cook who played a pivotal role in this work! Huge thanks to @ExpPsychSoc, and to @DrRebeccaBrewer for the nomination✨

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Our team will be at the 'Together with Autism' event on 7th December. Come along if you are a Coventry and Warwickshire resident. Free tickets can be bought from here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/leamington-s… @actforautism1

Come along to the 'Developing Attention in Autism Workshop' at the Exchange on Monday 9th December. You can find out more and register here: birmingham.ac.uk/university/col… @DrAndrewSurtees @carmevo

The 2024 / 2025 Richards Lab team!⭐️ We've got lots of new projects and exciting updates to share with you soon, we're looking forward to a busy year of research! 🙌

New Guide Alert!🎉 We're pleased to share our new parent guide on self-injurious behaviour! The guide outlines what self-injury is, it's possible causes & interventions that may help reduce self-injury. 🖱️tinyurl.com/SIB-Parent-Gui… @CerebraCharity @UoB_SoP @CerebraNetwork @UoB_CDS

A wonderful graduation day! #PhDone

Congratulations @katmarlow3 on your PhD graduation - was a pleasure to supervise your exceptional research with @devine_mr_rory

Officially Dr Hickman 🎓

Wonderful news🥳 Check out this excellent thread summarising the findings of our recent study examining autism-related language preferences of English-speaking autistic adults across the globe 👀