Aasiya Khalil
Aikaterini Aznaourova
Aleksandra Cwikla
Alice Ferrante
Alexandra Andrews
Amy Bean
Ana Lucia Sarabia Villegas
Ananya Dunn
Andrea Werres
Anna Savel
Arthur Rowe Jones
Ash Mohammed-Grange
Avina Jain
Bella Yahin Geiwald
Bobby Ingham
Bradley Claytor
Bridget Mosiya
Caleb Woodward
Cam Harris
Cassandra Dickinson
Charlotte Ross
Cherrie Tong
Chloe Eia Hancock
Cornelia Skrok
Daniela Morris
Elissa Lenoir Ajaka
Ell Lenton
Ella Clancy
Ellecia Marie
Ellen Brandi
Elliott Bulman
Eunbyeol Choi
Flo Bender
Freddie Alexander-Morris
Gal Patal
George Murphy
Gerrick King
Gruffudd Drury
Haitian Xu
Han Bao
Hannah Stockwell
Iman Amjid
Isa Rios Martinez
Isla Burnett
Isabelle Van Zijl
James King
Janine Mody
Janvi Jain
Jiachen Shao
Jihun Lee
Joshua Haswell
Josselin Demelier
Kainuo Huang
Karen Tadrous
Kayla Russell
Ke Bao
Kyeongjin Kim
Leeso Kweon
Leslyn Zhou
Liberty Leatherbarrow Stokes
Lucy Lay
Luke Cahalin
Manil Rai
Mathilda Schmidt
Maya Seth
Maya Tastet
Megan Lim
MengTing Ruan (Stella)
Oli Roper
Panka Fürjes
Qiuxuan Jin
Qiyang Yu
Reid Jameson Potts
Samina Rahman
Sayuri Okazaki
Scarlett Hayes
Seungbum Ha (John)
Sohyun Lim
Stefano Stavrou
Stephanie Pyburn
Tara Ferguson
Teodora Dimitrova
Therese Mastek
Tom Heap
Tongzheng Chu
Violet Wang
Xiaohua (Laura) Liu
Xinyi Zhang
Ya Lucia Kang
Yangzhizhuo Qu
Yawen Chen
Ye Zhang (Lily)
Yeji Kim
Yelley Genkin
Yichen Liao
Yuanming (Krystal) Song
Yufei Liu
Yuming Xu
Yuna Goda
Zhaowei Wang
Zih-Jie Weng (Artemis)
Ziru Wang
University Challenge - Autism
Scarlett Hayes
As an autistic student, I was shocked to discover that the university dropout rate of my autistic peers is over 60%, 10 times higher than the neurotypical counterparts. Many that remain underperform, navigating an alien environment and experiencing an education that does not play to their strengths. These aspects of the autistic student experience are explored in qualitative studies capturing authentic voices. This inspired me to develop an activist project aimed at creating awareness of this inequity as a precursor to change, targeted at university decision makers. Their understanding of the lived experience of autistic students is essential if they are to promote interventions and dismantle barriers to create autism friendly environments. The concept explores issues of inclusion and diversity against the backdrop of social justice.
My project uses an autoethnographic approach to storytelling with outcomes designed to capture the interest of the HE community and explain the complexity of the issues. The textile (weighted blanket) and zine (open letter to the HE Community) emerge from a tradition of protest and the hand-crafting emphasises autoethnography as a personal critique. To enable wider dissemination I have produced a film to voice my story and show scenes from the blanket.
Instagram: @scarlett_artwork
