Mrs Emily Ellington

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Emily is a Postgraduate Researcher based in the School of Psychology at ��. Her research focuses on autistic young people’s involvement in shared decision-making within mental health services.

Emily is particularly interested in how shared decision-making is facilitated with autistic young people from a dialogic perspective. Her research draws on theories of autistic processing and issues raised through the double empathy problem (in relation to autistic and non-autistic communication) to maximise shared understanding and collective participation. Emily’s work is designed to place autistic experiences at the heart of service development and to advance care planning practice conducive to autistic involvement.

Alongside her research, Emily supports with teaching across both Education and Psychology undergraduate modules relating to educational psychology and special educational needs. She is a current Specialist Member for the First Tier SEND Tribunal and volunteers as a Trustee for The Eden Academy; a Multi Academy Trust of special needs schools.

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Autism
Teaching and learning
Service development across education, health, and social care
‘Close to Practice’ research/Action Research

Current research

Emily’s research focuses on autistic involvement in shared decision-making within mental health services. Her work relates to priorities outlined for autistic young people experiencing mental ill-health within the NHS Long Term Plan. More specifically, the commitment that every autistic child and young person with mental health needs will have a designated key worker and that they will feel listened to, informed, and fully involved in their care planning.

Her current project is being undertaken within a Learning Disability and Autism Keyworking Service and it seeks to explore barriers and facilitators that exist for shared decision-making from the perspectives of all stakeholders. Following this, Emily hopes to develop a framework for shared decision-making practice that attends to the communication differences across autistic and non-autistic interlocutors, through participatory approaches. A practice pilot will then be undertaken within service.

Supervisors: Dr Hanna Kovshoff and Professor Sarah Parsons

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Emily taught in a state secondary school at the beginning of her career and supports with teaching duties across undergraduate modules at ��.

This includes PSYC3057 (Introduction to Educational Psychology) and EDUC3039 (Rethinking Autism). She particularly enjoys bringing real world experience and anecdotes to her teaching duties at the university.

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Biography

Before joining the �� as a postgraduate researcher, Emily spent over 12 years working in education with a focus on special educational needs and disabilities.

After working as a pastoral lead in a state secondary school, Emily moved into Local Authority education services. During this time, she worked in partnership with schools and colleges to enhance provision and practice for children and young people with SEND. Ultimately, she was appointed as the Head of SEND and Inclusion for a large west London authority.

Emily has also worked on the development of inclusive practice internationally. In 2019, she was appointed as the Corporate Head of Inclusion for a global education company based in the United Arab Emirates. In this role, she led the company’s inclusive education strategy and supported over 50 schools within the group to improve their provision and practice.

Emily holds a BSc (Psychology), PG Cert (SEND), PGCert (Integrated Counselling), and MSc (Social Research Methods).

Prizes

MSRM Interdisciplinary Research Poster Award (2022)
MSRM Interdisciplinary Research Poster Award (2022)

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