Category: Research
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Ask About Asthma
This week (9-15 September), as many young people are heading back to school after their summer holiday, NHS England is suggesting that teachers, employers and government workers #AskAboutAsthma. The goal is to raise awareness of the experiences of those with asthma, and to suggest techniques to put in place to help children and young people…
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Going Bananas with R
One of my many tasks in preparation for my PhD is to get my head around the statistical computing programming language, R, which will have a considerable part to play in my upcoming research projects. R supports data analysis and data visualisation, with the help of a huge number of extension packages. I have included…
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Trauma-Informed Approaches: Lessons for Autism Research
This article discusses themes of mental health and trauma. I have recently been working through a course about trauma-informed design [1]: the technique of reducing user stress and re-traumatisation through thoughtful experimental and system design. It occurred to me that many of the design choices suggested could apply to making a safe research environment for…