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Sarah Grant

Ms Sarah Grant

PhD Student

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Biography

Sarah is an ESRC funded autistic PhD student at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supervised by Dr Rosa Hoekstra, Dr Sam Norton and Professor Lance McCracken.

Previously, Sarah had a career in financial administration and project management, before commencing undergraduate studies as a mature student. Sarah continued to work as a research project administrator throughout both degrees at the University of Essex, where she graduated with a first-class honours degree in Psychology, and with distinction for her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her MSc thesis, on speech-error monitoring in primary school children, won the Robert Ferry memorial prize for best dissertation.

Sarah’s research interests include:

  • neurodevelopmental disabilities and differences
  • autism and physical health
  • sensory processing and autistic experiences of pain
  • psycholinguistics and neurodivergent communication
  • gender and cultural aspects of autism

Sarah’s PhD research is a mixed method project exploring a possible association between autism, central sensitisation and ‘central sensitivity syndromes’ (CSS) such as fibromyalgia, me/cfs and migraine, and the lived experience of autistic people with co-occurring CSS.

Project Title: The CENSSAS study: Exploring Associations Between CENtral Sensitivity Syndromes and the Autism Spectrum

In addition to her PhD work, Sarah is a GTA, treasurer of the KCL neurodiversity and mental health society, and a member and administrator of the Stigma and Autism Research Network (SARN).

Research

GLAD Lab fieldwork team pilot in Ethiopia
Global research on Autism and other Developmental disabilities (GLAD) Lab

Global research on Autism and other Developmental disabilities

Research

GLAD Lab fieldwork team pilot in Ethiopia
Global research on Autism and other Developmental disabilities (GLAD) Lab

Global research on Autism and other Developmental disabilities