Thank you for booking your place for this year's Autistica Research Festival. We're looking forward to welcoming you for five days of keynotes, panel sessions and roundtable discussions.
Sign up for individual sessions below, where you'll find more information and timings for each of them.
You can also download the full programme and register for the sessions through the links included in the PDF.
All Festival sessions will be held on Zoom and the links to sign up to each session are included in the details below.
All sessions will be recorded and shared after the Festival if you would like a recap or to catch up on what you missed.
Monday 12 July
10:00 - 11.30
Introduction to our festival from our CEO James Cusack and our festival organisers.
Followed by:
Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment (Sign up now)
Keynote talk from Duncan Astle.
12:30 - 13:30
The online equivalent of chatting during the lunch break. Drop in to our social session to talk to other researchers and community members.
14:00 - 17:00
Mental Health Panel (Sign up now)
Eight researchers share their latest research around autism and mental health in our peer reviewed panel session.
(Please note, this session will now finish at 5pm)
Tuesday 13 July
10:30 - 13:00
Fostering positive identity panel (Sign up now)
Six researchers share their latest research around autism and fostering positive identity in our peer reviewed panel session.
(Please note, this session will now finish at 1pm)
15:00 - 16:00
Ethical considerations and working with the community (Sign up now)
This roundtable discussion will explore the importance of working with autistic community members in research, through co-production, involvement or participatory research, and how to do it well, so that it is meaningful for both researchers and participants.
18:00 - 19:00
Identifying and diagnosing in history possibilities and pitfalls (Sign up now)
Simon Jarret, author of Those They Called Idiots will be speaking about autism and learning disabilities in history. Simon is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the editor of Community Living Magazine.
Wednesday 14 July
10:00 - 11:00
Neurodiversifying autism intervention research and practice (Sign up now)
Keynote talk from Kathy Leadbitter, Leneh Buckle, Ceri Ellis and Martijn Dekker.
12:30 - 12:30
The online equivalent of chatting during the lunch break. Drop in to our social session to talk to other researchers and community members.
14:00 - 16:30
External support – schools, services and beyond (Sign up now)
Eight researchers share their latest research around autism and external support in our peer reviewed panel session.
Thursday 15 July
10:30 - 13:00
Six researchers share their latest research around autism and physical health in our peer reviewed panel session.
(Please note, this session will now finish at 1pm)
15:00 - 16:00
Diversity in autism research (Sign up now)
This roundtable discussion will explore how the experience of autism, as an autistic person or a family member/ support of an autistic person can vary between cultures, and why it is important to build in room for diversity within autism research.
Friday 16 July
10:00 - 11:00
How can mental health services for autistic people be improved? Lessons from the example of anorexia nervosa (Sign up now)
Keynote talk from Will Mandy.
14:00 - 16:45
Inclusive environments (Sign up now)
Six researchers share their latest research around autism and inclusive environments in our peer reviewed panel session.
Followed by:
Closing and Awards (Sign up now)
Our CEO James Cusack will close the Festival.
If you have any questions about the Festival or problems with signing up to any of the sessions, please do email us events@autistica.org.uk