Family Resemblances and Fellow Travellers: A neurodiversity, trauma and abuse symposium

Join us for an exciting day of learning, networking, and collaboration. This in-person event is designed for for early career researchers, featuring collaborators from Anglia Ruskin University, University of South Wales, BAWSO and Autistic UK.

Registration starts at 9am, with the event kicking off at 10am.

Event Highlights:

• Inspiring keynote speakers sharing their expertise
• Engaging workshops and interactive sessions
• Opportunities to discuss best practices and network with researchers, practitioners and people with shared lived experiences

Potential themes and areas of focus include:

· Interrogating and reimagining dominant narratives about neurodiversity, trauma and abuse, including gaps and silences linked to intersecting forms of disadvantage

· Exploring the ethical and epistemological stakes, and practical/political implications, of differing accounts of trauma, divergence and disablement

· Lived experiences of meaning making, self-understanding, kinship and community building

· Navigating academic, policy and practice spaces ‘about’ neurodiversity, trauma and abuse as a neurodivergent or traumatised subject

· Working coalitionally to create safe(r) spaces and contest intersecting and overlapping forms of marginalisation

Accessibility and inclusion

We welcome early career researchers, and would particularly encourage people with relevant lived experiences and from groups who are underrepresented in academia to attend.

If you have any accessibility requirements which you would like to inquire about, including preferring or needing to attend virtually, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with organisers at: k.allen3@uos.ac.uk

Lunch and refreshments

Lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.