Fellow’s Profile
Caroline Hearst
Fellow’s Profile
Caroline Hearst
Peer provision and partnership in supporting autistic adults
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Engaging autistic people in peer support and advocacy to improve healthcare and wellbeing
Countries
Fellowship year
2017
Supported by
Locality
South East
Biography
I currently co-ordinate AutAngel, a community interest company run by and for autistic adults which works to grow the autistic community. I also run Autism Matters, where I offer training and consultation about autism.
My Fellowship looked at autistic peer support and co-produced research. I am autistic myself and when I discovered this, it was important for me to meet other autistic people and learn as much as I could about autism. I became aware that much research on autism was driven by the interests of researchers rather than the needs of autistic people, so I wanted to see how this was addressed by co-produced research.
I have used what I learnt in my Fellowship to help develop AutAngel as a truly supportive community that is able to document its effectiveness with the aid of co-produced research.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.