Appendix 1: Research Funding & Awards (Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

Appendix 1: Research Funding & Awards

Research Funding

Discover Autism Research and Employment Service (DARE) Year 2, funded by Autistica (Principal Investigator: Anna Remington, Co-Investigator: Brett Heasman). Largescale longitudinal initiative to investigate autism in employment. £80.2k, 2019-2020.

Interventions to improve mental health in people with autism spectrum disorder, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (CRAE Investigator: Laura Crane). Undertaking a systematic review and network meta-analysis of research on mental health in autistic people. £141.7k, 2019-2020.

Research Passport, funded by Autistica (Principal Investigator: Laura, Crane, CoInvestigators: Melissa Bovis, Robyn Steward and Liz Pellicano). Project to develop a tool aimed at improving the experience of autistic people who are participating in research. £28.6k, 2018-2020.

Finished at School, funded by Ambitious about Autism (Principal Investigators: Laura Crane and Anna Remington). Project working with a team of young autistic people to investigate post-16 pathways and outcomes for young autistic people in England. £20.6k, 2019-2020. UCL Impact Case Study. Development research on autism in the family courts as an Impact Case Study in advance of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment exercise (Principal Investigator: Anna Remington, Co-Investigator: Rob George, UCL Law). £3.7k, 2018.

British Council UK-Israel Lectureship Scheme, secured by Anna Remington to build collaborations with researchers at Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University, and to give seminars/lectures about participatory autism research and the value of seeing autism as a difference (rather than as a deficit). £1.5k, 2019.

Awards

CRAE’s research on an internship programme for autistic graduates at Deutsche Bank UK was included in the #MadeAtUCL Award series – a showcase of the 100 most impactful research stories from UCL.

Anna Remington was nominated for a UCL Inspirational Delivery Teaching Award, as part of the Student Choice Awards.