Update – Sensory Street

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 memberContinue reading “New grant funding!”

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 alsoContinue reading “Sensory Street included in UK Parliament Research Briefing”

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 theContinue reading “New research publication”

Autistica’s 2030 Goals

Autistica is one of the UK’s leading autism research-based charities. Based on priorities identified by autistic people they have identified six goals they want to achieve by 2030. Their goals aim to increase the quality of life for autistic people, enabling them to live healthier, happier and longer lives. Autistica aims to achieve these byContinue reading “Autistica’s 2030 Goals”

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”