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<\/a>Experts by experience can be academics themselves, providing vital insights into gaps in the literature. Karen Leneh Buckle, an autistic person and student at the University, chose to investigate autistic inertia, an overlooked aspect of living with autism. Karen\u2019s 2021 paper in Frontiers in Psychology was the first to describe this difficulty with stopping, starting and changing tasks. The team concluded \u2018Inertia had pervasive effects on participants\u2019 day-to-day activities and wellbeing. This overdue research opens the door to many areas of further investigation to better understand autistic inertia and effective support strategies.<\/p>\nDr Ellen Poliakoff and Dr Emma Gowen of FBMH\u2019s neuroscience and experimental psychology division are supervising Karen\u2019s research. With autistic collaborator Peter Baimbridge, they have created practical guidelines for autism researchers to consider, increasing involvement, collaboration and trust between academics and the autism community who may have previously felt they were being experimented \u2018on\u2019 rather than with.<\/p>\n
Despite clear advantages, one obstacle with co-productive research is that they take longer to run. Emma calls for funders and research institutions to value co-production research and factor in the extra time and money it takes to produce a study, otherwise researchers may be discouraged from this type of collaboration in order to meet pressures to publish high numbers of articles.<\/p>\n
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