Good practice case study - Dissemination of results

📢The Importance of Inclusive Dissemination

Whilst funders may expect specific outputs such as conference presentations and peer reviewed journal articles, it is important to ensure that those within the autistic community are able to feed into how information is disseminated.

🧑‍💬Ask Participants Directly

One way to do this is to ask participants during the project (e.g. at the end of the survey or interview) how they would like to hear about research findings.

📝Co-Develop a Communications Plan

Another approach is to ask your PAR group, if you have one, to co-develop a communications plan for findings. This could be throughout the project or just the final plans, depending on resourcing.

✍️Enable Meaningful Authorship

Members of the autistic community who have contributed to the project in co-design and co-conduction should be given appropriate opportunities to contribute as co-authors. This should be done in such a way that does not require them to be public identified as an expert by experience.

🔒Respect Privacy in Descriptions

Additionally, when describing any boards within outputs it is important to ensure individual board members cannot be identified. For example, if you wanted to describe the demographic characteristics of the board, do so using categories to prevent use of algorithms, including GenAI identifying individual members.

Professor Ellie Dommett PhD