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Joanna Grace PhD

@jo3grace.bsky.social

Seeking to contribute to a world where people are understood in spite of difference, Doctoral researcher, The Sensory Projects, TEDx, Trainer, Author. Autistic.

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Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last night I dreamed Flo and I were working together at the Super Sensory Lexiconary. I was trying to get the final slide deck up and it wouldn't open. Flo had to leave the workshop she was running to help me. But neither of us could get it to work. So we couldn't get to the end.

A photo of me (white middle aged woman) and Flo (elderly white woman) bending over a laptop. text reads: Last night I dreamed Flo and I were working together at the Super Sensory Lexiconary. I was trying to get the final slide deck up and it wouldn't open. Flo had to leave the workshop she was running to help me. But neither of us could get it to work. So we couldn't get to the end. Sometimes my subconscious is a puzzle to me, but I don't think it is hiding much here!
Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My penguins are surviving the weather, this one lost it's scarf but the people in my little village have found it and returned it. (Other penguin adventures, the punky one is roaming around and possibly caused the one with the halo to topple - isn't that always the way of things? And one

Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I have been working on a re-anaylsis of the data generated for my PhD studies, this time focusing on Autistic experience. I am really pleased with how practical some of the insights coming out of it are. I can see their application for me in terms of

text on image reads: That I am autistic was not a limitation to my research, even though my own internalised bias led me to fear that it was, instead it was constitutive of my analytic process. Coming to recognise this enabled me to find a mode of analysis that was embodied, effective, and epistemic, a method that listened to my body as well as to the field. Emergent findings from an analysis of the data from my PhD exploring Autistic Experience in Research. There is a cartoon image of me drawn by Discover Inclusion infront of the logo for The Sensory Projects - a blue star, I am a white woman with long plaited brown hair, I am wearing a teal pashmina in the drawing
Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another busy day for Monkey and me. Keynote: Neurodivergent and Not Attending. Seminar: Distinguishing Burnout from School Anxiety. A theme ran through all the presentations about the effect of the words we use. We recognise the power of words. So many interesting, and

Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Chopping the onion small to hide it in dinner. A technique for getting some children to eat more veg. Not one I would suggest to parents of neurodivergent children who are struggling with eating. This afternoon I got to talk to the staff of Greenside, and their wider networks, about

White middle aged woman with brown eyes, hair and dress, chopping onion on a wooden board
Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Wonderful start to my first day actually wearing my @parallellifestyle @wearebam #purplesockday socks: listening to Prof Ben Simmons talking about the personhood of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and seeing that the gorgeous sculpture made by someone

Purple stripey socks pointing at the cover of BJLD upon which a clay sculpture shows a woman cradling a child
Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today in under a minute, from hail to pod cocoon, and along the way I finished a rough draft of my work on autistic experience in research and managed, due to an act of amazing serendipity from an online friend, to find a journal that might be interested in it, exciting for me.