Playing A/Part featured in The Psychologist

Headshot image featuring Prof Jonathan Green - image published in Spectrum News.

The  Playing A/Part project is featured in The Psychologist Jan/Feb 2024 (pp 62-64) in an interview with the Jonathan Green, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Manchester who participated in the 2019 Playing A/Part conference and has subsequently collaborated with several of the autistic scholars he met at this event. He talks about the impact this has had on his work and the need for more research that incorporates lived experience into scientific understanding.

The article is co-authored by Emma Williams, Nicola Shaughnessy, Hannah Newman and George Watts. Jonathan has also recently  co-authored a piece with Nicola Shaughnessy on a similar theme “Autistic Phenomenology: Past, Present, Futures” (Green, J., Shaughnessy, N. ‘Autistic phenomenology: past, present, and potential futures’, Frontiers in Psychology , Vol 14, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1287209).