The Autistic Postgraduate Woman

Navigating the Neurotypical University

Sophie Phillips (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2024
Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80388-371-7 (ISBN)

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Bringing together current research with lived experience, this book considers the challenges of being an autistic woman in postgraduate education with the aim to raise awareness, challenge misconceptions and ignite change within the system.

Despite strong numbers of autistic students attending higher education, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) drives within academia to increase the number of disabled graduates undertaking further study, autistic postgraduate students are defined as having poorer outcomes than autistic people without degrees. This book will consider the ‘unseen’ challenges autistic women in postgraduate education may experience, with the aim to raise awareness and help to reduce this discrepancy. Combining a holistic view of up-to-date literature with personal experience, the author will discuss some of the stereotypical beliefs that surround autism, highlighting stigma but also dispelling misconceptions, and will explore how these experiences may be transferrable to other disabled and minority students.

Dr Sophie Phillips is a research associate at the University of Sheffield, working on a project investigating anti-ableist research cultures funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her research interests centre around increasing access to higher education for autistic women and more broadly neurodivergent individuals, following her own diagnosis as a young adult. Sophie is involved with the Nottinghamshire Autism Police Partnership, based at the University of Nottingham, with the aim of changing the way in which neurodivergent people are treated within the police system.

Preface

Foreword by Dr Amy Pearson

1. Introduction
2. Autism in women
3. The challenges of working whilst studying
4. Being an autistic autism researcher
5. Navigating conferences
6. The sensory environment of the university
7. Learning differently
8. Autistic advocacy
9. Conclusion

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2024
Verlagsort	Hove
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80388-371-5 / 1803883715
ISBN-13	978-1-80388-371-7 / 9781803883717
Zustand	Neuware