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Appendix 3: Conferences & Presentations (Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Appendix 3: CRAE Key Conference Presentations (Oct 2018 – Sep 2019) Appendix 3: Conferences & Presentations
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR 2019), Montreal, Canada. CRAE members presented their autism research via nine posters and one oral presentations over the conference duration to over 2,500 international autism researchers from more than 50 countries.
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Autism Europe (2019), Nice, France. CRAE members presented two posters, presented two talks, ran one workshop and chaired one oral session.
Autistica Discover Conference (2019), Reading, UK. CRAE members presented two posters, gave one flashtalk and two presentations.
Anna Remington gave two invited talks in Derry and Belfast, as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival, in February 2019.
In March 2019 Anna Remington gave a talk about CRAE and her work with HeartnSoul at the Hub; a sold-out event at the Wellcome Collection.
Anna Remington gave the keynote lecture at the Participatory Research Conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Anna Remington was invited to lead a seminar on participatory research at the Golan Lab and Bonneh Lab at the Bar Ilan University in Israel.
Anna Remington spoke at the Centre for Educational Neuroscience Seminar Series, The London Autism Special Interest Group Conference, The Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, and Salford University.
Laura Crane was invited to present a talk entitled “Know Your Normal: Mental health in young autistic people” at the RCPsych International Congress in London (as part of a symposium on mental health and autism).
Laura Crane was invited to present a talk entitled “Something needs to change: Mental health in young autistic adults” for the Educational Psychology Special Interest Group at UCL Institute of Education.
Laura Crane gave an invited talk entitled “Participatory autism research: Challenges and opportunities” to the ARCH autism research group at King’s College London.
Laura Crane gave an invited talk about the work of CRAE at the Playing A/Part conference at the University of Kent.
DE-ENIGMA members gave a presentation/ workshop on ‘Social robotics for autistic children: Lessons from DE-ENIGMA’ at the Futures of NeuroRobotics symposium at Macquarie University, Australia.
Alria Williams presented a talk at the Birkbeck Centre for Educational Neuroscience on “Designing education robot activities for children on the autism spectrum”.
Alyssa Alcorn was invited to give a talk at the UCL Centre for Speech and Language Intervention Research (CSLIR) seminar event under the theme of ‘Research informing Speech and Language Therapy services for children with ASD’. Alyssa’s talk was titled “Constructing triangles of interaction: Planning technology use to practice communication skills”.
Alyssa Alcorn and Eloise Ainger presented on general DE-ENIGMA project progress to audience of head teachers/schools involved in research at the Pan London Autism Schools Network Research Group (at UCL Institute of Education). They also gave a talk for staff members at College Park School, sharing the results of the usability studies and teacher interviews in which the school participated.
In 2019, DE-ENIGMA (represented by CRAE member Alyssa Alcorn) participated in the Queensmill School Research and Development Board Celebration Evening. At this event, multiple researchers who had partnered with the school were present to talk to parents and staff about their work.
Eleanor Buckley was invited to present a talk at the UCL Institute of Child Health and ARCH lecture series at King’s College London, titled “Scholars of human expression: The experiences of autistic art performing professionals and attitudes of performing arts employers in the UK.”
Brett Heasman was invited to talk and run workshops at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank (Birmingham), Travelex, Guild of Human Resource Professionals, Public Health England, Knowledge Quarter, CIPD Festival of Work, and Neurodiversity Works.
Laura Crane gave an invited keynote talk for Autism@Manchester at the Manchester Museum. Open to the public, her soldout talk was entitled “Participatory autism research: Challenges and opportunities”.
Anna Remington gave a keynote lecture at the London South Bank University Autism and Entrepreneurship Conference.
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