audhd postdoc @Cambridge_Uni // currently midrash & reading diversity for @templeton_fdn // generally autism, neurodiversity, Qualitative research
Joined July 2018
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29 Jul 2025
Hello! I do cognitive science-ish things, neurodiversity (mostly autism), mixed methods research, and some random interdisciplinary stuff. I love giving talks.
Papers, datasets, talks etc. on my website: heasutherland.com
More active on bsky @ heasutherland.com
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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland retweeted
Recording resources for our @templeton_fdn project on multilingualism and religious experiences, and thinking about the Bible as a book about a world of languages. @uoedivinity @GaidhligODE @thbaketal @zosia_mat
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#INSAR26 Poster today! Covering ambiguous language interpretation, a novel creativity task we've developed, and our experiences with using LLMs for qual coding.
Fri 12.30-1.30, poster 21B: "How does autism impact adults' ability to identify and exploit ambiguous language?"
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If you missed our poster at #INSAR26 on how autism impacts adults' ability to identify and exploit ambiguous language (and the novel creativity task we used to assess this!), you can now see it here: heasutherland.com/publicatio…
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Mar 20
Do you want to better understand autistic people in your life or stay up to date on research?
Join our free Autism Central webinar with AuDHD researcher @heasutherland on “Understanding autistic social communication from autistic people’s perspectives”: orlo.uk/SVTy9
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12 Dec 2025
📜 New preprint with my INSAR '25 co-panelists - "Making space for Autistic people with ‘complex support needs’: Recommendations for inclusive research practices". About doing ND-oriented and participatory research with autistic people with CSN.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/k3…
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27 Nov 2025
📃New paper!📃
Editorial with @suereviews.bsky.social and @sarah595.bsky.social on doing research in high support needs autism services. We cover practical challenges, ethics, consent/assent issues, safeguarding, and the emotional burdens of research.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland retweeted
26 Nov 2025
Thanks to @the_issr for hosting our God, Language and Diversity panel at the @AARWeb (@templeton_fdn).
13 Nov 2025
Boston @ this year's AAR 👇 we're doing a panel hosted by @the_issr on our @templeton_fdn project God, Language, and Diversity.
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24 Oct 2025
I'm going to be at this event on qualitative research with non-speaking neurodivergent people - talking about ethnography as an inclusive methodology when working with autistic adults with high support needs. Would love to see you there!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/methodsla…
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12 Sep 2025
Hello! Im at #AECongress25 - do come say hi if you see me. I also have a talk this afternoon about the double empathy problem in care and support services!
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29 Jul 2025
Belated because I've been super busy, but I graduated a few weeks ago! I'm *officially* Dr. Sutherland now. Not sure I can explain what that means to me - I've wanted a doctorate for as long as I can remember. Huge thanks to the wonderful supervisors who helped get me there. 💜
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24 Jun 2025
Very excited to be attending the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference today, from the @NdHumanities network. Sad I can't be there in person, but their online provision is wonderful, and lots of very cool speakers in the lineup...
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12 Jun 2025
If you're interested in autism, religious experience, and people who are minimally-speaking / have higher support needs, do check out this job at U of Aberdeen:
abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/resea…
You'd get to work on a very interesting project with a really great team.
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11 Jun 2025
This is now published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research!
▶️ sjdr.se/articles/10.16993/sj…
12 Aug 2024
Another new preprint! ▶️ osf.io/2us8a
“A difference in typical values”: autistic perspectives on autistic social communication 🧵
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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland retweeted
28 May 2025
Autistic women or non-binary participants (18 ) needed📢
We would like to hear your valuable expertise in reviewing an intervention that aims to prevent body image concerns and disordered eating. For more info, please email Hannah at h.k.lewis@qmul.ac.uk
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Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland retweeted
26 May 2025
🚨 Our new research just out in Autism journal:
@grrand_team @UCLPALS @LJMU @UCL @EdgeHill @AFNCCF highlights systemic barriers in #CAMHS for #autistic children. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
@NAT_taskforce @NHSAbility @AutismPractice
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12 May 2025
The podcast I did about my PhD research with the wonderful Middletown Autism Centre is now out:
buzzsprout.com/1184276/episo… ( Apple & Spotify )
It's a pretty casual chat, not a super technical academic thing - so if you're a carer, practitioner, etc. do give it a listen!
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12 May 2025
Thesis corrections were submitted Saturday! Three added sections on the ethics of and participation recruitment for my studies, and also a bit on my epistemology and how that interacted with my methods. Hard work to write them, but glad I did it - the thesis is better with them.
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2 May 2025
This is part of "Neurodivergence-Affirming and Inclusive Research Practices for Autistic People with High Support Needs" a 10:30-12:30 on Saturday, Room 608-609! Do come along, it's going to be a great panel.
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28 Apr 2025
Who on here is going to INSAR this week? #INSAR25
Drop a comment if you'd like to meet up (either before or during! I'm around from Tuesday onwards, minus a few prior commitments) - it'd be great to catch up with people, or to meet people I only know as profile pics on here :)
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