Nick Chown

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Nick Chown is an independent autism advocate, mentor, researcher, and trainer. He has undertaken research on barriers to learning for students with autism in further and higher education, autism awareness in the UK police service, viva protocols for doctoral students with autism, and diagnostic pathways for autistic adults. His doctoral thesis focused on language methods and the applicability of Wittgenstein’s language game concept in autism. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and a reviewer for various other journals. In addition to leading the Higher Achievers project investigating support for autistic students in UK HE, Nick was involved in the LSBU project mentoring autistic adults both as mentor and a member of the advisory board. Nick's book 'Understanding and Evaluating Autism Theory' was published in 2016. Prior to working in autism Nick was in corporate risk management.
Supervisors: All my autism studies - from PG Cert to doctorate - were supervised by Dr Luke Beardon of Sheffield Hallam University to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude.

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Andrej Dujella

University of Zagreb

Hemin Koyi

Uppsala University

Jana Javornik

University of East London

Graham Martin

University of Leicester

Gwen Robbins Schug

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso

University of Salamanca

John Sutton

Macquarie University

Eros Carvalho

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Kevin Arbuckle

Swansea University

Jesper Hoffmeyer

University of Copenhagen

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Neurodiversity

Springer eBooks, 2020

Autism Theory

Springer eBooks, 2021

Accommodation through personalisation: ensuring the autistic student has an equal opportunity for success in the PhD viva voce

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Development and Validation of a Novel Self-Report Measure of Monotropism in Autistic and Non-Autistic People: The Monotropism Questionnaire

Monotropism seeks to explain autism in terms of attention distribution and interests. Despite hav... more Monotropism seeks to explain autism in terms of attention distribution and interests. Despite having strong subjective validity to autistic people, and potential to explain the overlap between autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), it has been little investigated formally. This is in large part due to lack of reliable and valid measures to capture the construct. In this study, we aimed to develop and validate a novel self-report measure, the Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ), in autistic and non-autistic people. The MQ consists of 47 items, which were generated by a group of autistic adults based on their lived experience and academic expertise. A sample of 1,110 participants (756 autistic, 354 nonautistic) completed the MQ online, as well as two established, short measures of autism, the Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-14 (RAADS-14) and the Autism Quotient-10 (AQ-MONOTROPISM QUESTIONNAIRE 2 10). Exploratory factor analyses suggested an 8-dimensional structure was optimal and the subscale scores showed high internal consistency reliability. The measure had very good convergent validity with the RAADS-14 and AQ-10 (all rs > .61). Attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism status were both significantly associated with higher mean monotropism scores. Overall, the MQ had good psychometric properties. Future research should be undertaken to test this finding, particularly across demographic and diagnostic groups, and apply the MQ to predictions of Monotropism theory.

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