Exciting news! We have acquired new funding from Durham University to develop an online training tool for businesses. This co-designed training for managers and employees will provide information and practical advice on making spaces more sensory-inclusive for autistic people! We are working with Autistica, who are partnering with us on this project, as well asContinue reading “New Durham University impact funding”
Category Archives: Research
New Reading University 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 memberContinue reading “New Reading University funding!”
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 first ever study we conducted in 2021. We would like to thank allContinue reading “New research publication”
Links between our research and our social media findings
We wanted to learn whether our research findings were also found in the answers to the eleven questions we asked on social media. “Bookshops are wonderful (except the ones with cafes in them, those aren’t really bookshops) Bookshops are usually quiet, dimly lit, have soft furnishings so don’t echo much, and don’t have many strongContinue reading “Links between our research and our social media findings”
Pilot work: Autistic Children Sensory Experiences in Public Places
Learning about the views of autistic children As well as learning about how the sensory aspects of public places can affect autistic adults, we were also interested in finding out more about their impact on autistic children. We were lucky to link with the Queensmill Trust who support a range of children across greater LondonContinue reading “Pilot work: Autistic Children Sensory Experiences in Public Places”
Our Findings
We are excited to celebrate the launch of a new ‘Research‘ section on our website. In this area we will be sharing information that we have learnt from working with autistic people over the past year in an accessible and easy to read format. We are looking forward to sharing quotes with you from ourContinue reading “Our Findings”
The Sensory Web
Thank you to those who attended our feedback group in September! It was really helpful to learn what you thought about our results, and your valuable insights have helped us to shape our findings and how we will present them. We are pleased to report that we have finished analysing our focus group data andContinue reading “The Sensory Web”
Focus Groups – Round 2
We have had a very productive couple of months since our last update. Following our first found of focus groups, we have been busy analysing the responses using an approach called content analysis. We used this approach to identify which public places people from the focus groups commonly identified as particularly challenging. There were severalContinue reading “Focus Groups – Round 2”
Focus Groups – Round 1
So what have we been up to recently at Sensory Street? Well it has been a busy few weeks as the first of our ethics applications was approved and it was time to start collecting some data! This month we ran our first set of focus groups exploring the lives of autistic people in publicContinue reading “Focus Groups – Round 1”
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