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...research which, in turn, informed the autism diagnostic criteria and assessment tools. Many of those were based on a presentation of autism that is more common in boys and men, and simplistic stereotypes about what it means to be autistic (e.g., someone who is direct, interested in science, trains and machines, and prefers to be by themselves). This meant that autistic...

...research shows that wellbeing can mean different things to different people. For example, when we asked Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that...

...researchers, such as Dr Kerry Jones, Lecturer in End of Life Care, Dr Sharon Mallon, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, and Dr Erica Borgstrom, Lecturer in End of Life Care, all from the Faculty of WELS School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, have begun to explore the experiences of children and young people’s death anxiety as a result of COVID-19, and the impact of...

...research ahead of the project showed that clinicians spent on average 70 minutes a day looking for patient data across health borders, and it was anticipated a reduction in the time to search for a patient record would create savings of around 20,000 pound per year per clinician. Beyond the benefits of efficiency, organisations will find that through the use of an...