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‘Building our own house’ as an insider-only Community-Partnered Participatory Research Council: Co-creating a safe space for Autistic knowledge production

Gemma Williams Orcid Logo, Dr Rebecca Ellis Orcid Logo, Willow Holloway, Selena Caemawr, MONIQUE CRAINE, Kathryn Williams Orcid Logo, Aimee Grant Orcid Logo

Autism, Volume: 29, Issue: 9, Pages: 2205 - 2215

Swansea University Authors: Gemma Williams Orcid Logo, Dr Rebecca Ellis Orcid Logo, Willow Holloway, MONIQUE CRAINE, Aimee Grant Orcid Logo

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This paper describes and reflects on the first six meetings of a newly-established Autistic Community Council, founded to steer a participatory, longitudinal qualitative study investigating the reproductive health of Autistic people with wombs. The two key aims of these initial six meetings – involv...

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