Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at SGDP Centre, IoPPN, KCL. Still trying to understand autism, social cognition, cognitive style...
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2 Apr 2024
Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: tinyurl.com/IUonlinetask
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My former King's College London MSc DEVPP student, Sophie Roper, has published her dissertation on autism, suicidality and ageing. Supervised by me, plus
@HappeLab & @GoldAgeLabUK
The paper is open access in Molecular Autism: link.springer.com/article/10…
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12 Sep 2025
Interesting @rcpsychNeuro session on the overlap of FND and autism chaired by @NirujAgrawal with talks from @BruceTamilson and @HappeLab
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I'm very pleased that our new narrative review on autism in midlife and old age has now been published in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology (by me and @HappeLab).
We cover a lot of topics... more below!
Open access: doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devp…
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6 Jan 2023
The first, by @HappeLab and myself, published in @JDisSoc covers our research findings with 149 survey participants - autistic educators, past and present, in a range of roles in schools, including teachers, TAs, Headteachers etc. 2/8
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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25 Oct 2024
🎉 Huge congratulations to our fantastic #PALMteam RA Eliza Hamdorf for a stellar poster presentation on the co-production of our upcoming platform, the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, with Lived Experience Experts at the @MQmentalhealth @DatamindUK Data Science meeting!🌟
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21 Oct 2024
Interested in doing a #PhD about #autism? Dr Julia Cook and I have a project on self-compassion and autistic young people in the @KCL_MRCDTP catalogue - apply, just a week to go, deadline 1pm 29/10/2024!
25 Sep 2024
Applications for @KingsCollegeLon @The_MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Biomedical Sciences 2025 entry are now OPEN!
Visit our website kcl-mrcdtp.com for more information.
#MRCDTP2025
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14 Oct 2024
There is just over 2 weeks left to apply for 2025 entry. Hear from MRC DTP student @chloecarrick_ about what their highlight has been so far!
#MRCDTP25
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26 Sep 2024
If you are interested in doing a #PhD on #autism check out this opportunity, including a great project with me and the wonderful Dr Julia Cook on compassion-focused mental well-being approaches for autistic young people
25 Sep 2024
Applications for @KingsCollegeLon @The_MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Biomedical Sciences 2025 entry are now OPEN!
Visit our website kcl-mrcdtp.com for more information.
#MRCDTP2025
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Help make a difference today. Watch the #EDGIUK leads @psychgenomics and Professor Janet Treasure, and mental health advocate @HopeVirgo among others discuss the importance of #EDGIUK and how to join today. edgiuk.org/. @beatED @NIHRresearch @NIHRMaudsleyBRC
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Thank you for organising such a great event and for the opportunity to present our work and hear more about other wonderful projects!
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Thanks to everyone who came to our #Autism ResearCH (ARCH) showcase on Wednesday at the @SGDPCentreKCL!
We had early career presenters from @KingsCollegeLon, @KU_Leuven, @UniofBath, @SussexUni, @GoldsmithsUoL, @ucl, @UniofOxford and more🧠
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10 Sep 2024
A great honor to be joining University of Oxford and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues and building new collaborations on cognitive, clinical and developmental neuroscience using MEG and OPM
9 Sep 2024
We're delighted to announce the appt of Ole Jensen as Professor of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience working across Psychiatry & @OxExpPsy
Prof Jensen is a world-leading expert in applying magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the human brain.
psych.ox.ac.uk/news/professo…
ALT Portrait photograph of Ole Jensen on a blue background
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5 Sep 2024
We are saying goodbye to our fantastic 2023/24 placement students. Thank you @lewis_hannah18 & @MariaJoseRodPin for your amazing contributions to the #CatalogueMHM & landscaping project. You have been awesome additions to the team & will be missed! Good luck with your final year!
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5 Sep 2024
INSAR Early Career Committee (ECC) is looking for new members! If you are interested in supporting other autism researchers, working with a great team and running some fab initiatives then do consider applying. Happy to chat if people have questions
docs.google.com/forms/d/1tqK…
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5 Sep 2024
Stunned by this - Melting Point has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
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2 Sep 2024
I’m one of the researchers working on this project. We are a team of researchers based at the University of Hertfordshire and University of Birmingham and we’ve been asked by @PDASociety to do this research.
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2 Sep 2024
We want to hear from adults who self-identify or have a diagnosis referencing extreme/pathological demand avoidance (EDA/PDA) or would likely meet the criteria, even if you don’t have a diagnosis or don’t agree with the terminology or framing.
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2 Sep 2024
📢 Call for participants for a study on demand avoidance
You can take part if you:
✅ are aged 18
✅struggle to undertake everyday tasks and experience a stress response to demands
Take the survey here (closes 13th Sept): bit.ly/3YYjpGN
ALT Survey recruitment advert for the study mentioned in the X post.
2 Sep 2024
Could you spare half an hour to complete an online survey? bit.ly/3YYjpGN
We want to hear from adults who experience a stress response to demands. You might be self-identified PDA, have a diagnosis which references demand avoidance, or think you would meet the criteria.
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19 Jul 2024
Well done Jessie - so we’ll deserved!
18 Jul 2024
Over the moon to have been awarded a @UKRI_News Future Leaders Fellowship! I'll be investigating how to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems @UCLPALS
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Interested in autism and ageing? These sessions are free for all to attend (just need to register with INSAR, which is free).
I’m looking forward to talking about our ageing-related work from the @ReSpectLabKCL and colleagues with @HappeLab!
Join us July 22 at 9AM Eastern for #INSAR_Institute Session 2 "Mental Health and Well-Being on the Autism Spectrum in Older Age". Next session will be Wednesday, July 24. #INSARSTC Register for free at autism-insar.org/page/Instit…
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