| Laurence Arnold - Specialist in Autism,
Disability Studies. Career History:
Doctoral Researcher - University of Birmingham
September 2007 –
• Video as an educational resource in
autism
• Ethical research using the emancipatory
and participatory paradigm
• Part time lecturer in autism and the
social model perspective
• Post graduate students representative
• Regular presenter at national and
international conferences
Director and Trustee - National Autistic Society
September 2003 – November 2009
• Assisted in major governance review
ensuring the society’s fitness for 21st
Century.
• Influenced policy towards inclusion and
positive role models.
• Capable decision maker, ensuring sound
financial management in difficult times.
• Oversight of crucial campaigning leading
up to the Autism Act 2009
• Introduced new perspectives from prior
involvement with other disability organisations
eg. RADAR, Coventry Council of Disabled People,
Autscape
• Building on prior experience as a carer,
researcher and advocate
Education:
The University of Birmingham:
PGCert (Special Education) Autism Adults 2006 -2007
Cert HE Autistic Spectrum Disorders 2002 - 2005
Hereward College of Further Education:
HND Media (moving image) Distinction 2001 - 2003
Prior research projects:
| 1987 |
‘Getting There’ presented to D.P.T.A.C.
and W.M.P.T.E. (initiated and executed): |
| 1990 |
‘The hidden minority’ funded by
the opportunities for volunteering consortium.(initiated
and supervised) |
| 1991 |
‘Left out in the cold’ funded
by Coventry City Council and Central
Government Action for Cities fund. (initiated
and supervised) |
Publications:
| (1984 – 1998) |
Ed. Trunk Calls Coventry Council of Disabled
People. Coventry |
| (1986, 1989, 1990, 1992) |
Services for Disabled People and their carers.
Edns 1 – 4 Coventry Council of Disabled
People. Coventry. |
| (2002) |
A piece of the action "Communication"
the magazine of the National Autistic Society
Spring 2002 Vol 36 No1 |
| (2007) |
Trust to the Board "Communication"
the magazine of the National Autistic Society
Winter 2007 |
| (2009) |
review of Can the World Afford Autistic
Spectrum Disorder? Nonverbal Communication,
Asperger Syndrome and the Interbrain by Digby
Tantam, Good Autism Practice (GAP), Volume 10,
Number 2, October 2009 , pp. 99-100(2) |
Conference Papers and Posters:
| 2005: |
'Whichever way you look at it, it’s
still Autism', Autscape |
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'Terra Incognita' (video) and panel chair -
Facing the Challenge, meeting the challenge, NAS |
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'Whichever way you look at it, it’s
still Autism', AWARES on line conference. |
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'Whichever way you look at it, it’s
still Autism', Autism and Representation (association
for research into popular fictions) John Moores
University. |
| 2006: |
'What is normal, the perils of doing it
societies way', AWARES on line conference. |
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'Disability and Impairment what is the
difference?', Disability Studies Association
Lancaster University |
| 2008: |
'Video as an educational tool in autism, an
under researched topic', Research into Practice,
NAS |
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'Does medical research in autism proceed
"arse backwards"?' - Disability Studies
Association Lancaster University |
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'Video as an educational tool in autism, an
ethical methodology?' (poster) - Disability
Studies Association Lancaster University |
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‘Discovering the Autistic tribes, new
territories for the Internet Anthropologist’
Perspectives of Autonomy and Autochthoneity in
the 21st century.’ Disability and the
Internet: Access, Mediation, Representation -
cultural disability studies network Liverpool
John Moores University |
| 2009: |
'Video as an educational tool in autism, an
ethical methodology?' |
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'Video as an educational tool in autism, an
ethical methodology?'
(poster) |
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'Artistic Autistics', Autscape |
| 2010: |
Key note speech – Theorising Normalcy
and the Mundane, Manchester Metropolitan
University |
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‘Fully human, fully here, the impact of
current research paradigms on the
conceptualisation of Autism’, School of Ed.
Research Student Conference Birmingham University |
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‘Fully human, fully here’
Disability Studies Association, Lancaster |
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'Worlds apart' (poster) Grad. School Research
Poster Conference Birmingham University, |
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'Worlds apart, beyond conventional ethics' (poster)
3rd Autism Neuroscience Conference, Cambridge
University |
Associations:
National Autistic Society
Royal Soc. for the encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce
William Morris Society
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