Staff profile

• Neurodivergence, mental health, quality of life, dehumanization, masking, burnout, the double empathy problem, LGBTQ health, wellbeing, and relationships, participatory research, action research.

Journal Article

• Cage, E., Botha, M., McDevitt, L., King, K. N., Biscoe, L., Tucker, K., & Pearson, A. (online). Diagnosis as a new beginning not an end: A participatory photovoice study on navigating an autism diagnosis in adulthood. Autism, 28(8), https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231220418
• Botha, M. (2025). Critical realism, community psychology, and the curious case of autism: A philosophy and practice of science with social justice in mind. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(1), Article e22764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22764
• Pearson, A., Botha, M., Rose, K., Mitchell, A., Joseph, W., Douglas, S., & Sedgewick, F. (online). “It's a long process, and it's a long journey”: Autistic adult’s experiences of support and recovery after experiencing intimate violence and abuse. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0146
• Pearson, A., Rose, K., Mitchell, A., Joseph, W., Douglas, S., Sedgewick, F., & Botha, M. (online). “It's not a physical prison but you can't get out”. How autistic adults make sense of the experience of intimate violence and abuse. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0145
• Botha, M., Chapman, R., Giwa Onaiwu, M., Kapp, S. K., Stannard Ashley, A., & Walker, N. (2024). The neurodiversity concept was developed collectively: An overdue correction on the origins of neurodiversity theory. Autism, 28(6), 1591-1594. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241237871
• Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Botha, M., Hens, K., O’Donoghue, S., Pearson, A., & Stenning, A. (2023). Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research. Autism, 27(5), 1235-1244. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221132107
• Rosqvist, H. B., Botha, M., Hens, K., O'Donoghue, S., Pearson, A., & Stenning, A. (2023). Being, Knowing, and Doing: Importing Theoretical Toolboxes for Autism Studies. Autism in Adulthood, 5(1), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0021
• Natri, H. M., Abubakare, O., Asasumasu, K., Basargekar, A., Beaud, F., Botha, M., Bottema-Beutel, K., Brea, M. R., Brown, L. X. Z., Burr, D. A., Cobbaert, L., Dabbs, C., Denome, D., Rosa, S. D. R., Doherty, M., Edwards, B., Edwards, C., Liszk, S. E., Elise, F., Fletcher-Watson, S., …Zisk, A. H. (2023). Anti-ableist language is fully compatible with high-quality autism research: Response to Singer et al. (2023). Autism Research, 16(4), 673-676. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2928
• Bottema-Beutel, K., Kapp, S. K., Sasson, N., Gernsbacher, M. A., Natri, H., & Botha, M. (2023). Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: a false dichotomy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1244451
• Pearson, A., Woods, R., Morgan, H., & Botha, M. (2021). Creating truly radical change in autism research: A response to Frith and Mottron. Autism Research, 14(10), 2243-2244. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2605