Publications by the Project Team on Autism, Gender and Creative Practices

• Katherine May (2018), The Electricity of Every Living Thing, Trapeze
• Farahar, C., & Bishopp-Ford, L. (2020). Stigmaphrenia©: Reducing mental health stigma with a script about neurodiversity. In D. Milton (Ed.), The neurodiversity reader: Exploring concepts, lived experience and implications for practice. UK: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.
• Milton, D. (Ed.). (2020). The neurodiversity reader: Exploring concepts, lived experience and implications for practice. UK: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.
• Sedgewick, F., et al (2016). Gender differences in the social motivation and friendship experiences of autistic and non-autistic adolescents. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 46(4), 1297-1306.
• Autism Gender and Sexuality Conference 2018 – recordings from the conference livestream

Limpsfield Grange School Books

• M is for Autism: The students of Limpsfield Grange and Vicky Martin
• M in the Middle: The students of Limpsfield Grange and Vicky Martin

Imagining Autism Journal Articles

• Beadle-Brown, J. et al (2017), ‘Imagining Autism:  Feasibility of a Drama-Based Intervention on the Social, Communicative and Imaginative behaviour of Children with Autism.’ Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice.
• Trimingham, M & Shaughnessy N. (2016) ‘Material Voices: Intermediality and Autism, ’Research in Drama Education: the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21.3, 2016,
•  Shaughnessy, N. ‘Imagining Otherwise: Autism, Neuroaesthetics and Contemporary Performance’ eds Bartleet, C and K Shepherd-Barr, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Special Edition: Experiments in Theatre:  New Directions in Science and Performance (December 2013), 321-334

Imagining Autism Chapters in Books

• Trimingham, M & N.Shaughnessy (2018), ‘Imagining the Ecologies of Autism’ in Kemp, R and B.McConachie (eds)The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science. London: Routledge
• Shaughnessy, N (2017), “Do you See what I see? Arts, Science and Evidence in Autism Research’, in M Reason and N Rowe (eds), Elusive Evidence: Documenting, Measuring and Evaluating Arts Practice in Social Contexts. London: Bloomsbury Methuen
• Shaughnessy, N. and M. Trimingham (2016). ‘Autism in the Wild: Bridging the Gap between Experiment and Experience’, in P. Garrett (ed.), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Shaughnessy, N. (2016) ‘Curious Incidents? Pretend Play, Presence and Performance Pedagogies in Encounters with Autism’, in P. Smagorinsky (ed.), Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance: Fostering Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
• Trimingham, M (2017) ‘The ecology of Autism: vibrant space in Imagining Autism’ in Scenography expanded: contemporary perspectives on performance design ed. by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer
• Trimingham, ( 2017) ‘Surprised by Beauty: Imagining Autism’ in Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetics to Creativity ed by Stephanie Bunn, Informa Ltd., London
•  Trimingham (2013) ‘Touched by Meaning: Haptic Affect in Autism’ in Affective Performance and Cognitive Science, Body, Brain and Being ed. Nicola Shaughnessy London: Bloomsbury, pp.229-240 

Key & Recent Books and Articles on Autism and Gender

• Carpenter, B., & Happe, F (2019) Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives, London: Routledge
• Cook, B., & Garnett, M. (2018) Spectrum Women: walking to the Beat of Autism, Jessica Kingsley
• Kim, C. (201) Nerdy, Shy and Socially inappropriate: a user Guide to an Asperger Life, Jessica Kingsley
• Eaton, J. (2017) A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum: Diagnosis, Intervention and Family Support, Jessica Kingsley
• Hendrickx, S (2015) Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jessica Kingsley
• Mendes, E., & Maroney, M. (2019) Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from across the Spectrum: London: Jessica Kingsley
• Moyse, R., & Porter, J. (2015). The experience of the hidden curriculum for autistic girls at mainstream primary schools. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 30(2), 187-201.
• Simone, R. (2010) AsperGirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley