Connor Keating

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✨

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…

Huge thank you to @Jennifer_L_Cook and Carmen Kraaijkamp for their help with this project✨ It was a big team effort!

✨Understanding these different routes to interpreting other people's emotions may help us design better, more tailored support to help both autistic and non-autistic people to read others' emotions (if that aligns with someone's personal goals)✨

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 are currently investigating this idea, so watch this space for updates👀🧵18

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…