💬Are you interested in Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning?🗨️

If so, you can attend the book launch of @krysiawally.bsky.social and I's co-edited collection.

The Impossible Subject: Autistic belonging in religious groups, with Krysia Waldock (8-May-2025) Exploring the inclusion and belonging of autistic people in religious groups with Krysia Waldock. Thursday, May 8 Resouces: Pearson, A., & Rose, K. (2023). Autistic Masking: Understanding Identity Management and the Role of Stigma. Pavillion Press. https://pavpub.com/health-and-social-care/health-a

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The Impossible Subject: Autistic belonging in religious groups, with Krysia Waldock

(8-May-2025)
www.youtube.com/watc...

@krysiawally.bsky.social‬

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Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom: Easy Ways to Achieve Access, Agency and Wellbeing for All by @drkaradymond.bsky.social

Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners edited by @krysiawally.bsky.social and @keatesresearch.bsky.social

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Graphic with text Autism Non-Fiction by Autistic Authors (1 of 2). Published July 2025. Displays the book covers for: - The Young Person’s Guide to Autistic Burnout by Viv Dawes. Illustrated by Josh Dawes - Finding Joy in Studying: An Autistic and ADHD Guide to Uncovering the Study Skills that Work for You by Victoria Honeybourne - Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom: Easy Ways to Achieve Access, Agency and Wellbeing for All by Kara Dymond - Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners edited by Krysia Emily Waldock and Nathan Keates - Embracing Monotropism and Supporting Young People with Transitions at Home and School by Helen Edgar

Autism Non-Fiction books, written by Autistic authors (1 of 2). Published July 2025.

#AcademicBooks #Neuroaffirming #Neurodivergent #AutisticsInAcademia #NewBooksOutSoon

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💫 If you'd like to know more, you can watch here lnkd.in/eq89j2cX and you can see the full chapter list and abstracts here lnkd.in/ee5mbdNa

📢 We'd love it if you could recommend this book and Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning to your library, and/or spread the word!

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And it's a wrap! 👏 🎉

@keatesresearch.bsky.social and I have submitted Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners this evening!

🌈 Thank you so much to the amazing authors we have worked with.
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Your chapter is amazing and so needed! Thank you so much for entrusting us with your work!

Chapter accepted in Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning - being published this summer

Edited by @keatesresearch.bsky.social and @krysiawally.bsky.social

Info: linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

These proposed concessions to the Welfare Bill don’t go far enough.

❌ No consultation with disabled people
❌ No government impact assessment
❌ No OBR analysis
❌ No publication of PIP or Mayfield Review

The Reasoned Amendment was clear. Disabled people are being ignored.

An image of us clicking 'notify publisher' for one of our co-edited collections. It is finally done... Now the second one.

We, @krysiawally.bsky.social and I, have now officially submitted one of the two co-edited collection books! #academicwriting #OneDone

Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning: 9798369380444: Education Books | IGI Global Scientific Publishing share.google/b6lNMlSwHGIV...

So glad your work is in one of the books - such vital work and so amazing 👏

Delighted to announce I have written a chapter for Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning (published July 2025) edited by the fab @keatesresearch.bsky.social @krysiawally.bsky.social. So excited to get my hands on a copy soon!

Book launch - save the date 6th October on site at University of Sunderland’s London Campus and online Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners. One of two edited collections of research and stories on neurodivergence throughout lifelong learning. Info: https://linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

Book launch - save the date 8th September on site at University of Sunderland’s London Campus and online Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning One of two edited collections of research and stories on neurodivergence throughout lifelong learning. Info: https://linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

Excited to say that I have a chapter in each of two books on neurodiversity & education coming out this autumn, edited by @krysiawally.bsky.social and @keatesresearch.bsky.social. 🎉

Details in following posts. 🧵

Save the date - Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners A yellow rectangle with a light pink frame on a pink and pale blue background. Three stars are in the top right corner. Book launch - save the date 6th October on site at University of Sunderland’s London Campus and online Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners. One of two edited collections of research and stories on neurodivergence throughout lifelong learning. Info: linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

Chapter accepted in Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners A yellow rectangle with a light pink frame on a pink and pale blue background. Three stars are in the top left corner. Chapter accepted for publication in Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners. One of two edited collections of research and stories on neurodivergence throughout lifelong learning. Info: linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

Delighted that my chapter, '“Everyone else wants cotton candy and all you want is a grape": Transforming your teaching from awareness to allyship with autistic students,' will be published in the fall in this important volume edited by @krysiawally.bsky.social and @keatesresearch.bsky.social.

We lost art history, anthropology, health & social care, journalism, music & audio technology, and philosophy & religious studies.
Religious Studies in Canterbury, home of Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the mother church of Anglicanism world wide.
Good luck, Cardiff!

We’re looking forward to hearing from Dr Krysia Waldock on Thursday!

Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=rRkrjJxf1EmQdz7Dz8UrPzNFa7ljapNItVtbi6_NWAZUMlNRRklWUTJaR1NFT1ZTU1VNNTdWTFBBWC4u

The Double Empathy Reader - Pavilion Publishing The Double Empathy Reader: Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and prac...

I have a chapter in The Double Empathy Reader!

"Whether performers across neurotypes engage in theatre as a hobby or profession, it can be valuable with the liminal experiences of respite from day-to-day existence through the imaginary fictional worlds."

pavpub.com/health-and-s...
#academicwriting

Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’

Massive investment in deprived communities is what will stop the turn to populist scapegoating of minorities that Reform exploits, not scrambling to reverse equality protections which a contemptible few will always resent.
Labour need to wake up

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Congratulations @krysiawally.bsky.social @keatesresearch.bsky.social on all of your hard work. Really excited to read 'Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning' and 'Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners' (published July 2025)

🎇Come listen to me talk religion, theology and autistic folk!

12th June 4pm BST. Link to register below. Would love to see you there! 😇

Will try to find some more of the pink dye.... or will try another colour! Or you'll have to come and see what color I dye my hair that day! ✨

🌈 We will also be working with authors to create accessible 'talking heads' about their chapters.

💫 We have a linktree we are building (linktr.ee/neurodiverge...) we are launching today and will have a book launch in Autumn 2025.

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Coming Soon July 2025 Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners Two edited collections of research and stories on neurodivergence and inclusive practice throughout lifelong learning. For further information: linktr.ee/NeurodivergentBook2025

🔦 Coming soon 🔦

📢 @keatesresearch.bsky.social and I have been working with 35 groups of amazing authors over the last year and have *two* edited collections about inclusive practice across lifelong learning.

💡 Our publication date is the end of July 2025!

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Neuroqueer Theory: A Starter Pack FREE COMMUNITY RESOURCE: Neuroqueer Theory Starter Pack By David Gray-Hammond & Helen Edgar What if your way of thinking, feeling, and existing wasn’t something to “normalize”—but something to celebrate? What if queering your mind was a radical act of liberation? Our Neuroqueer Theory Starter Pack is a bold, accessible, and FREE introduction to the liberatory world of neuroqueer thinking, where we challenge societal norms and celebrate our authentic selves.

FREE COMMUNITY RESOURCE: Neuroqueer Theory Starter Pack By David Gray-Hammond & Helen Edgar

What if your way of thinking, feeling, and existing wasn’t something to “normalize”but something to celebrate?

What if queering your mind was a radical act of…

Webinar: 12th June 4-5.30pm Krysia Waldock: 'Impossible Subjects'? Exploring autistic people's inclusion and belonging in religious groups. Dr. Krysia Waldock will share the findings from their doctoral research, where they explored autistic people's inclusion and belonging in churches and mosques through group conversations and collecting autistic people's stories. Krysia will share how we 'do religion' shapes access, boundaries and barriers in religious groups. Krysia will finally share some thoughts and directions on creating spaces which value autistic people, and can enable us to flourish. Image to the right of a white person with long red hair wearing white glasses

2 - 12th June - online @autismtheology.bsky.social - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

#AutRes #ReligiousStudies #DisabilityStudies #Inclusion

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Everyone isn’t ‘a little bit autistic’ – here’s why this notion is harmful This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

🌟New article / rant for @theconversation.com 🌟

Why it's NOT true to say "everyone's a bit Autistic"

theconversation.com/everyone-isn...

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd

The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary

The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy

University urged to rule out forced redundancies or face consequences Staff could strike if bosses force workers to leave their roles

Our second struggling university today is Nottingham, where the job cuts stretch as far ahead as the eye can see. Colleagues have just voted for strike action if compulsory redundancies aren't ruled out. Just another miserable day in British Higher Education.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

UK Christians for Trans Rights — Open Letter to MPs UK Christians for Trans Rights — Open Letter to MPs Dear Members of Parliament, Together we write as church leaders and church members to express our fear and indignation for our transgender siblin...

UK Christians for Trans Rights — An Open Letter to MPs. Sign and share! (thanks to @msamrc.bsky.social for sending this my way) 🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...