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Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: tinyurl.com/IUonlinetask
Prof Francesca Happé
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Prof Francesca Happé
@HappeLab
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at SGDP Centre, IoPPN, KCL. Still trying to understand autism, social cognition, cognitive style...
Joined May 2012
- Truly honoured and gobsmacked in equal measure! Thank you @BPSOfficial and thank you all my wonderful students @SGDPCentreKCL, colleagues, and autistic collaborators & participants who have made the research possible!Professor Francesca Happé @HappeLab, an international leader on research into autism, has won the BPS Presidents’ Award for 2019. You can find the full story here - ow.ly/azhE50wTKh3
- My daughter’s BeReal for today! So lovely to have (most) of my family there for investiture (CBE for services to autism)!
- New paper on #Autism & PTSD symptoms, shows many experiences that autistic folk find traumatic are not recognised in DSM-5 PTSD criteria. These experiences are just as likely to lead to high PTSD symptoms. Change needed so no autistic person is denied PTSD DX and treatment! 1/2
- Sorry to be boring; isn’t it time #UniversityChallenge thought about diversity? What message does it send to see two ALL MALE teams, 7/8 white students, representing university ‘talent’? @BBCTwo plse think about effects on students who might be wondering if university is for them
- New #autism #PTSD paper by the wonderful Freya Rumball, Anke Karl, Lucinda Brook (& me). Free access until March 2021 using this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1cPuW3AhveoJ…
- Huge congratulations to my wonderful PhD student @Hr_pickard who passed her viva today @SGDPCentreKCL @KingsIoPPN with no corrections and high commendation from expert examiners @jacquirodgers & @SBGaigg (thank you)!
- Looking for a #PhD studentship? Interested in #autism? 2 opportunities just advertised with me & Prof Emily Simonoff @KingsIoPPN
- It’s been such a privilege to be Head of Department @SGDPCentreKCL for the last 7 years - really delighted to be handing on the role to the wonderful Prof @cathrynlewis!Delighted to announce that I have been appointed Head of Department at @SGDPCentreKCL , taking over from @HappeLab – a hard act to follow. Look forward to working with all my wonderful colleagues in this new role.
- We’re trying to find out about #autistic adults’ experiences of online video meetings vs in person. Can you help? Got time for a 30-45 min interview? We especially need #autistic men aged 20-40, to balance genders/ages! Please contact: [email protected] RTs appreciated!
- Are you the parent of an #autistic student who has been (in/formally, fixed-term or permanently) #excluded from school? Please consider helping with our research! Contact [email protected] RT appreciated, thanks!
