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Impact stories 2025
As part of our Research Showcase 2025, the Centre produced a document highlighting some of our most important and influential impact stories for the year. You can download read about…
Authenticity in the classroom: The impact of supporting Autistic leadership
Autistic scholars like Bek Carter are transforming higher education through authentic leadership, inclusive teaching, and neurodiversity-affirming practices.
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Autism Professor Gives Back to the Next Generation of Researchers
Emeritus Professor Amanda Richdale knows from personal experience the difference that top-up funding can make to a PhD project.
At school and in danger: Why we need to end the bullying of Autistic students and how we can do it
Autistic students are not safe in Australian schools. A new submission to the Australian government calls for urgent, evidence-based action to end this crisis.
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Spotlighting the work of Dr Dianne Blackwell
Meet Dr Dianne Blackwell, a researcher with the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) whose work bridges clinical expertise and lived experience.
Neurodiversity-affirming tools and training to support inclusive mental health care
Groundbreaking, co-designed suicide prevention tools are transforming clinical care for Autistic people, leading to more inclusive, effective, and life-saving supports.
Bringing early autism training to Cape York and the Torres Strait
A growing number of health professionals across Cape York and the Torres Strait are now trained in the Social Attention and Communication Surveillance (SACS) tool, supporting earlier identification of autism in some of Queensland’s most remote communities.
Informing international understanding of suicide risk in neurodivergent people
An OTARC led systematic review is helping to change conversations around suicide prevention and mental health reform in Scotland.
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Dr Melissa Gilbert, researcher
Dr Melissa Gilbert is a researcher at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre whose work is helping to shift long-standing assumptions about autism and gender.
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Endowed Chair Professor Dawn Adams
Dawn previously worked at the Autism Centre of Excellence at Griffith University, where her work won several awards. Her research focuses on autistic mental health and wellbeing.