event Archives - CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AUTISM AND EDUCATION

18th December 201910th March 2021

[Past Event] Evening of CRAEtivity

Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 18:00 – 20:00
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CRAE is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a charity evening celebrating autistic people in the arts.

For this extra special event, we are incredibly excited to welcome world-renowned concert pianist, Derek Paravicini. Derek is blind, autistic and has severe learning difficulties and is one of the most extraordinary pianists and musical entertainers of his generation, rapidly learning musical pieces simply by listening to them.

Derek will be joined on stage by Professor Adam Ockelford, Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, whose research focuses on educational needs and music for those with disabilities.

Autistic artist, Patrick Samuel will also be live-drawing the performance and his artworks will be on display in the foyer throughout the evening for guests to enjoy at their leisure.

The evening will be hosted by CRAE’s very own current Artist-in-Residence, Ali Northcott.

We look forward to welcoming you all in what will be a fantastic festive celebration!

Anna Remington and the CRAE Team.

We will be collecting charitable donations throughout the evening. All proceeds will be donated to two chosen charities: “Choir With No Name” who run choirs for homeless and marginalised people and the “Sounds of Intent” which supports music education for children, young people and adults with disabilities.

Evening Programme:
18:00 – Doors open
18:15 – 18:30 – Welcome
18:30 – 19:00 – Piano concert (1st half)
19:00 – 19:30 – Interval (art exhibition in foyer)
19:30 – 20:00 – Piano concert (2nd half)
20:00 – Event finish

Please note, there is step-free access to this venue. Please contact us ahead of time (T: 020 7331 5126 or E: IOE.crae@ucl.ac.uk) should you need assistance and to ensure trained personnel are on site should an evacuation be necessary.

16th October 201910th March 2021

[Past Event] 2020 CRAE Annual Lecture

Thursday, 03 December 2020 at 18:00 – 19:00
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Luke Beardon’s talk for the CRAE Annual Lecture provides a celebratory vision for what a future autistic utopia might look like!

About this Event

The Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is delighted to announce that the 2020 CRAE Annual Lecture (previously postponed due to Covid-19) will now take place online! The lecture will be given by Luke Beardon, who will speak on ‘Autopia (Autistic Utopia)’.

Luke has been working for decades in the autism field, in capacities ranging from practitioner to researcher, trainer to Senior Lecturer in autism at Sheffield Hallam University.

Luke’s talk will identify what he believes to be the current state of play as regards societal and professional conceptualisation of autistic individuals, and provide a vision for what a future autistic utopia might look like, purely from his perspective.

Ranging from why we may want to consider the abolition of school bells through to working in a stationary cupboard; from a critique of autism-related terms to why inclusion may not be all it’s purported to be; and from multiples of three to a hug-aversive Australian considering flying to the UK to embrace him, Luke’s presentation will be wide-ranging, possibly provocative, probably contentious, and unapologetically celebratory in tone.

Trigger warning: In order to identify an optimistic future, Luke will start the talk by highlighting some of the rather more negative aspects of the autistic experience at the start of the evening. Bear with him, though, it’s not all going to be doom nor gloom.

We very much look forward to welcoming Luke Beardon to CRAE to speak on such an important topic and hope that you can join us for this special, free to attend event.

In advance of the event, we will email attendees with joining instructions.

The CRAE team.

16th October 201910th March 2021

[Past Event] CRAE 10-Year Anniversary

Thursday, 07 November 2019 at 18:30 – 20:30
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It gives us great joy to invite you to the Centre for Research in Autism and Education – CRAE’s 10 Year Anniversary. Please join us for the celebration on Thursday, 7th November 2019 at 18:30 at the UCL Institute of Education (Jeffrey Hall), 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL.

We are indebted to our funders and supporters, including alumni and friends of the Institute, plus all of the fabulous children, young people, adults, families, practitioners, head teachers, and school staff who so generously give up their time to help with our research, so this is our small way of saying THANK YOU!

We look forward to sharing with you some of CRAE’s past, current and upcoming research highlights that promote awareness and acceptance of autism, and has a meaningful impact to people’s everyday lives. Spaces are limited, so do sign up to secure your spot!

We really hope that you will be able to attend. CRAE would not be what it is without your support.

With best wishes,

CRAE

Please note, there is step-free access to this venue. Please contact us ahead of time (tel: 020 7331 5162 or email: ioe.crae@ucl.ac.uk) should you need assistance and to ensure trained personnel are on site should an evacuation be necessary.

5th October 201910th March 2021

[Past Event] It’s All Academic!

Saturday, 05 October 2019 at 10:00 – 16:00

The CRAE team is hosting a stall – “Can it read my mind?” – at UCL’s It’s All Academic Festival. Visit us at the North Lodge, if you would like us to measure your brain’s own electrical activity with Muse™ headbands.

The headbands are able to measure the electrical activity of the brain and convert this electrical feedback instantaneously into sounds that correspond to different brainwaves (i.e., how calm or active the brain is). For example, a ‘calm brain’ (beta brainwaves) would lead to the sounds of birds tweeting, whereas an ‘active brain’ (alpha brainwaves) would lead to noises of stormy weather from a connected mobile device.

4th October 201911th March 2021

[Past Event] 2019 CRAE Annual Lecture

Thursday, 07 March 2019 at 18:30 – 19:30
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Peter Vermeulen – Autism and happiness: From neurodiversity to neuroharmony

The Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is delighted to announce that the 2019 CRAE Annual Lecture will be given by Peter Vermeulen, who will speak on ‘autism and happiness: from neurodiversity to neuroharmony’.

With a MSc and PhD in Psychology and Educational Sciences, Peter has worked with autistic people and their families for more than 30 years. Founder of “Autism in Context” and Senior Lecturer at Autisme Centraal (a training and education centre for autism), Peter is an internationally respected lecturer/trainer and presents all over Europe and beyond. Peter has written more than 15 books and several articles on autism.

Peter explains that with more than 10 scientific articles per day, autism is just about the most studied condition in the world. We need all this research to increase our understanding of a condition involving, like no other, myths and misconceptions. Yet happiness has received little attention in the field of autism. Outcome and intervention studies, for instance, rarely take emotional well-being as a desired outcome. And when the focus is on well-being, it is often from a negative perspective, namely the lack of well-being and quality of life amongst autistic people. It is time to take a U-turn in our approach and change from an exclusive focus on what makes autism so different (and from a negative, clinical and medical approach of happiness in autism, i.e., a lack of distress) towards a shared and positive focus (we all want to be happy). In other words: let’s move from neurodiversity to neuroharmony.

We very much look forward to welcoming Peter Vermeulen to CRAE to speak on such an important topic and hope that you can join us for this special, free to attend event.

Anna Remington and the CRAE team.

The RADA bar will be open for a pre-event drink from 17.30 pm.

The venue is fully accessible.