During January and February 2020, we will be running a series of co-creation workshops in the UK and we invite you to take part in one of these workshops. Together we will design an employability toolkit for students, training materials for university staff and guides for employers. Please join us if you are currently: a…

In a blog post for Emerald, the international journal publishing house, Dr Marc Fabri from Leeds Beckett University shares his thoughts on using participatory design methods with autistic adults, and how this can help build and support a community. This is based on Marc’s experience from running the Autism&Uni project (www.autism-uni.org) which focused on the…

The underlying ethos of the IMAGE project is participation: autistic students participate in the creation of an employability toolkit, careers advisors co-creating training materials on autism support. The IMAGE project has now teamed up with the lovely people at DUXU, the International Conference of Design, User Experience and Usability. DUXU will be held in Copenhagen,…

When designing software for autistic adults their needs, preferences and characteristics have to be considered. In this blog post Marc Fabri shares his thoughts on how to approach the design one of the key outputs from the IMAGE project: An employability toolkit for autistic students. We know that autistic people typically welcome structure, both in…

The Université of Toulouse brings together the main higher education and research institutions in Toulouse and its region (23 higher education institutions, 1 university hospital and 7 research organisations), located in 11 cities in 8 French departments. Its ambition is to enroll at the highest international level at the academic and scientific level by promoting…

The IMAGE project has a new research assisstant in Helsinki. Meet Minja Lahdelma, who has been helping us with the data collected in the project! ”Hey! I’m undergraduate student majoring in Special Education at the University of Helsinki and I’m working as a research assistant for IMAGE Project. Like Juuso, I have a background in…

Take part in our multi-national survey and help us identify what changes need to happen so that more autistic graduates can gain employment after completing their university studies. We would like to hear from you whether you are an autistic student or graduate, working at a university, or you are an employer. The survey is…

The University of Helsinki is the largest and oldest higher education institution in Finland. The University is an international community of approximately 33,000 students and 7,000 staff members including professors, university lecturers that teach and conduct research, as well as full time researchers. The university has been listed one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary academic…

The IMAGE project is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to be located at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom. Application Deadline: 10 March 2019Start Date: 1 May 2019Duration: 3 yearsBursary: £14,777 per annum (pro-rata into 12 monthly payments)Fees: UK/EU Fees paid for a period of three years (see web link for non-EU). For full…