Message from our Acting Director The academic year 2018-2019 has been one of (temporary!) change for the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE). In 2019, we were delighted to welcome the newest member of the CRAE team, baby Finn, when CRAE Director Anna Remington welcomed her first child. We all send our warmest congratulations to Anna and her husband Aaron on this exciting news.
CRAE’s work could never be achieved without the support of our wonderful partners, collaborators, colleagues and friends. We are particularly indebted to The Pears Foundation, Ambitious about Autism, and Autistica, as well as UCL Institute of Education, for their encouragement and support of our work.
Whilst Anna has been on maternity leave, CRAE continued her commitment to developing our participatory research agenda, working closely with the autistic and broader autism communities across a range of CRAE projects.
Most importantly, we would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all the autistic people, families, schools and charities who have contributed to our work, attended our events, or engaged with our centre. Without you, we would not be able to produce our crucially important research, all of which aims to make a genuine positive difference to the lives of autistic children, young people and adults.
In our 2018-2019 annual report, you can read about some of the exciting projects we have been working on, as well as our engagement activities, over the past 12 months.
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to oversee CRAE in Anna’s absence. We hope you enjoy finding our more about our research and engagement activities over the past 12 months in this report… Laura
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