New grant funding!
We are excited to announce that we have been successfully awarded a new grant – the Research England Participatory Research Fund through the University of Reading. This funding will be used to develop an evidence-based, co-produced guide to make supermarkets more accessible for autistic shoppers. The guide will be expertly designed by our team member…
Sensory Street included in UK Parliament Research Briefing
Our research paper has recently been included in a Research Briefing on ‘Invisible Disabilities in Education and Employment’ published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). These POSTnotes are brief, easy to read reviews of emerging areas of research that can be used by members of parliament. Our team member Keren was also…
New research publication
We are excited to announce that our research paper ‘“It Is a Big Spider Web of Things”: Sensory Experiences of Autistic Adults in Public Spaces’ has recently been published in Autism in Adulthood. This paper reports on the research findings from the focus groups we conducted in 2021. We would like to thank all the…
Tickets Are Available Now!
We’re excited to announce that free tickets for our immersive event (Sensory Supermarket) are available on Eventbrite now! We look forward to seeing you in Dagenham from the 19th-20th of August. There are just 10 slots currently available for each session, so book now to avoid disappointment. On the 19th-20th of August we are taking…
Links between our Social Media Posts and Focus Groups
In our focus groups we found six themes that appear to influence how easily accessible public spaces such as supermarkets are for people with sensory processing difficulties. You can read more about each theme and how we used these to create our ‘sensory web’ on our page about principles of sensory environments. We also found…
Our Event in August 2022
Update 01/09/2022 – This event has now ended. To learn more about the event, please visit our page on the The Sensory Supermarket (August 2022). We are excited to announce that we will be hosting our Sensory Street immersive event at PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) in Dagenham. It is UCL’s first net zero carbon building and…
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