Associate Fellowship:

Creative Practice, Collaboration and Inclusive Teaching

I’m really pleased to share that I’ve been awarded an Associate Fellowship (AFHEA).

For me, this recognition reflects something that has been quietly shaping my practice over the past few years: a commitment to creative, neuro-inclusive teaching grounded in collaboration.

Most of my teaching happens in print studios, working with students from across art, design and fashion. It’s presses, ink and process-heavy techniques that can feel daunting at first. I remember being a student myself and feeling absolutely overwhelmed with the complexity of each process. I design sessions carefully, incorporating visual workflows, staged demonstrations, and deliberate pauses to help build confidence.

By facilitating learners to approach complex equipment with confidence rather than anxiety. These choices are shaped by research and by listening closely to students. Neurodivergent learners, in particular, have taught me the importance of clarity, pacing and reassurance. Small structural shifts can transform a learning experience.

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29th June 20238th November 2024

An Autistic Auto-Ethnographic Walk

I’m so pleased to announce that my film ‘An Autistic Auto-Ethnographic Walk’ has won the ‘Research Film’ award at the University of Reading’s Doctoral Conference.

This film is an auto-ethnographic walk, meaning that it is my perspective. This film highlights the lack of high-quality research regarding the authentic female autistic experience. I hope this silent film goes some way to explain the importance of asking ‘how do autistic women appropriate public space?’

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5th May 20221st January 2025

CPRA Grant

Exploring Identity and Access Through Sensory-Inspired Art, Autistic Women and Public Space

I am delighted to share that I will be creating a new body of work comprising screen prints and artist books, thanks to the generous support of the Creative Practice Research Academy (CPRA) grant. This project will explore the profound impact of heightened sensory processing on women’s identity and how it influences their access to, and engagement with, public spaces.

Through this work, I aim to ignite important conversations surrounding disability, public access, and gender. My creative practice acts as visual elicitation—a means of sparking dialogue. To inform the project, I have begun engaging with autistic women via my social media platforms, inviting them to share their experiences of ‘otherness’ in social spaces. These candid and often deeply personal perspectives are shaping both the aesthetics of the prints and artist books and the overall direction of the project.

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25th April 20225th May 2022

ESRC Funded SeNSS Scholarship

I have been awarded a full ESRC Funded SeNSS Scholarship!

I am overwhelmed and hugely overjoyed to announce that I have won a SeNSS (South-East Social Sciences) scholarship. This is a full student led scholarship funded by the ESRC (Economic Social Research Council).

The aim of this project is to explore how autistic women’s complex embodied experience of the built environment may be codified or systematically analysed, through a perceptual model of wayfinding. Empowering autistic women’s wayfinding thus widens participation in the design of placemaking for minority groups. This project has grown from my own photography practice where I’ve explored my own autism in relation to the built environment.

Barcelona Reflections, Jane Elizabeth Bennett 2014 ©

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