Director Team
Dr Philippa Howard
Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, School of Education
Research interests: autism, cognition, reading, eye tracking, communication
Dr Felicity Sedgewick
Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, School of Education
Research interests: neurodiversity, gender, relationships, mental health, higher education
Dr Laura Hull
Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: autism, mental health, masking, camouflaging, young people, diagnosis
BARG Staff Members
Dr Alyssa Alcorn
Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences
Research interests: neurodiversity paradigm, neurodivergence, children, education, participatory research
Professor Chris Jarrold
Professor of Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Sciences
Research interests: autism, neurodiversity, working memory, cognitive control, language development
Dr Nick Martin
Senior Research Associate, School of Education
Research interests: cognitive psychology, vision, autism, eye movement
Dr Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Computer Science
Research interests: multisensory interaction, cross-sensory cognition, co-design, mixed ability, accessibility
Dr Victoria Nimmo-Smith
Honorary Academic Clinical Fellow, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: ADHD, autism, mental health, wellbeing
Dr Abs Ashely
Lecturer in English, School of Humanities
Research interests: critical neurodiversity students, medical humanities, gender variance, mental health
Dr Jade Norris
Senior Research Associate, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: autism, mental health, memory, interviews, service access
Dr Alison Oldfield
Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Research interests: outdoor learning, design technology
Professor Dheeraj Rai
Professor of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: psychiatry, epidemiology, randomised controlled trials, autism, neurodevelopment
Dr Alba Realpe
Research Fellow, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: qualitative research, trial participation and retention, neurodiversity, adult learning disabilities, co-production
Dr Zoe Reed
Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences
Research interests: intervention development, epidemiology, autism, mental health, emotion recognition
Dr Joel Ross
Professor in Engineer Experimental Practice Education, School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Research interests: neurodiversity, built environment, learning environments, sensory inclusion
Dr Jessica Roy
Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: children’s rights, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence and abuse, family court, substance misuse
Professor Evie Stergiakouli
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Mental Health, Department for Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: neurodevelopmental conditions, mental health, causal inference, ADHD, autism
Dr Beth Stone
Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: autism, homelessness, social exclusion, critical disability studies
Dr Kim Straun
Lecturer in Child Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: physical activity, behaviour change, health outcomes, participation, youth
Dr Jack Underwood
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: co-occurring conditions, genetics, depression, trauma
BARG Student Members
Dr Jo Clough
PhD student, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: autism, social care, women/non-males, qualitative research, intersectionality
Mr Matthew Hodder
PhD student, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Research interests: autism, camouflaging, assessment, diagnosis, internalising phenotype
Ms Anastasia Izotova
PhD student, visiting School of Psychological Sciences and Centre for Academic Mental Health
Research interests: childhood and adolescent self-harm, mental health, neurodevelopment, genetic epidemiology, suicide
Ms Lucy Jackson
PhD student, School of Psychological Sciences
Research interests: education bias, autism, stereotyping, memory, language
Ms Freya Selman
PhD student, School for Policy Studies
Research interests: autism, mental health, physical activity
Mrs Cathy Wassell
PhD Student, School of Education
Research interests: autism, assessment, internalising presentation