Dr Ruth Moyse is Head of Training and Coproduction at AT-Autism, where she leads programmes co-designed, co-developed and co-delivered with autistic people, across school and NHS settings.
She is the AT-Autism Director of the groundbreaking National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP), commissioned by NHS England. The NATP is a 3-year autism Train the Trainer programme for mental health professionals in inpatient, all age community, secure welfare and youth justice settings in all seven NHS regions. Ruth is also the co-Lead of the pilot Autism and Wellbeing in Schools project. Both of these projects are in partnership with Anna Freud.
A teacher by background, her academic research prioritises participatory, creative approaches that centre the ‘voices’ of marginalised populations and inform/transform practice through the co-creation of knowledge.
She has published on the experiences of autistic girls in school and on autistic school staff, and is a contributor to forthcoming books on understanding the mental health of autistic children and young people, and on creative research methods. Ruth is also a Trustee of the John and Lorna Wing Foundation and sits on the editorial board of research website Information Autism.
Seminar presented by Dr Katja Frimberger, lecturer in Education at University of Strathclyde.
This presentation reflects on the moral dimension of a participatory film-making project with refugee young people who wanted to make a film to support other new young arrivals in the process of making home in Scotland.
In the first part, Dr Frimberger highlights some of the challenges of collaborating with refugee young people, in light of the often-dehumanizing representations of refugees in mainstream media and the danger of the triple conflation of authenticity-voice-pain in academic narratives about refugees.
In the second part, she shows how honouring young people’s desire to convey the hopeful aspects of making home emerged as a key pedagogical strategy to affirm their expert position and encourage their participation in the project.
Hands and heart design by Camille Sousa