It has been just over 3 years since we (@debbieriby.bsky.social & I) launched Triple-A (www.tripledurham.co.uk) - a training tool for educators for supporting autistic and neurodivergent pupils with attention, sensory arousal and anxiety.
Have you seen the new article by @chloefielding.bsky.social, Alice Streeter, @debbieriby.bsky.social and @mimhanley.bsky.social?
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We were particularly excited to see this one as when the team visited @dulib.bsky.social in December, Chloe talked to us about this research!
We’ve reached the end of the PGR Conference! We’ve had a great day of hearing about the amazing research being conducted by our PGRs! Thank you to all of our presenters and attendees, and everyone who helped with organising the conference! @durhampsych.bsky.social
The winner of Best Long Talk is Emerald Grimshaw! @emeraldgrimshaw.bsky.social
The winner of Best Short Talk is Fran Cavanagh!
The winner of Best Poster is Artie Graham!
And an excellent talk to finish the conference from Emerald Grimshaw, who discussed how the multisensory and interactive capabilities of educational VR affect its success @durhampsych.bsky.social
A great first talk of the final session by Aliya Edwards, who presented their work on using a new method to assess concurrent pitch and rhythm imagery
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We’ve reached our last session of the day, where we’ll be hearing from Emerald and Aliya about their fascinating research! @durhampsych.bsky.social
We’ll now be hearing from our keynote speaker, Professor Victoria Simms, who has joined us from Ulster University. Vic’s talk will discuss the importance of public engagement for researchers! @durhampsych.bsky.social
We’re now moving onto the second of our poster sessions! We’ve got excellent posters from Lucy Edgar, Eleonora Apolo de Azevedo, Xiangyu Deng, Xueqing Li, Wenjing Zheng, Rui Su, and Halo Gao
Oscar Sill gave an amazing talk to end our short talk session, where he discussed the development of accurate own-body maps from childhood to adulthood! @durhampsych.bsky.social
Another great talk in our short talk session from Rai Bari, who presented his work on feature vs object-based attentional templates during feature, conjunction, and object search @durhampsych.bsky.social
Fran Cavanagh gave a fascinating talk on using machine learning to analyse large online text datasets @durhampsych.bsky.social
An insightful talk from Gloria Roden-Lui on the views of service users, staff, and carers on the use of restraint in secure psychiatric services @durhampsych.bsky.social
Giulia D’Avino gave a great talk on the effects of tiredness on word learning during infancy
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An interesting talk from James Mcleod to start our short talk session! He presented his research on the perspectives of autistic adults about the factors influencing their PE access and engagement during secondary school @durhampsych.bsky.social
We’re now moving onto our short talk session, where we’ll be hearing from James, Giulia, Gloria, Fran, Rai, and Oscar about their research! @durhampsych.bsky.social
Now we have our first poster session! We have amazing posters from Artie Graham, Jack Thompson, Sarah White, Yuewen Wu, Maria Ciocan, Liang Wu, Charlie Greenall, and Mohsen Khoddami @durhampsych.bsky.social
We ended the first long talk session with another great talk from Courtney Turner, who presented her research on the stability of individual working memory capacity. @durhampsych.bsky.social
Bhakti gave a great first talk of the day, discussing the pathways to constructive and destructive behavioural responses. @durhampsych.bsky.social
We are starting the day with our first long talk session, where we’ll be hearing from Bhakti and Courtney @durhampsych.bsky.social
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Today is the 19th Annual Psychology PGR Conference! Stay tuned for updates throughout the day, where we will hear from PGRs about their exciting research! We are also welcoming Professor Victoria Simms from Ulster University, who will be giving a keynote talk on public engagement for researchers.
A blog post about when @debbieriby.bsky.social, @dramypearson.bsky.social, @mimhanley.bsky.social, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, @chloefielding.bsky.social & James Mcleod came to @dulib.bsky.social to talk about #neurodiversity research:
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We're looking for autistic parents to take part in a study on burnout: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please take part/share if you have capacity.
A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached.
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This morning we welcomed @debbieriby.bsky.social, @dramypearson.bsky.social, @mimhanley.bsky.social , @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, @chloefielding.bsky.social to @dulib.bsky.social to talk about research projects happening in the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development (@durhampsych.bsky.social)