Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices

Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe; Tamara Kalandadze; Siu Kit Yeung; Flavio Azevedo; Bethan Iley; Jenny Mai Phan; Anusha V. Ramji; John J. Shaw; Mirela Zaneva; Marie Dokovova; Helena Hartmann; Steven K. Kapp; Kayleigh L. Warrington; Mahmoud M. Elsherif

doi:10.53841/bpscog.2023.1.8.23

Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices

Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe
, Tamara Kalandadze
, Siu Kit Yeung
, Flavio Azevedo
, Bethan Iley
, Jenny Mai Phan
, Anusha V. Ramji
, John J. Shaw
, Mirela Zaneva
, Marie Dokovova
, Helena Hartmann
, Steven K. Kapp
, Kayleigh L. Warrington
, Mahmoud M. Elsherif

Psychology

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Abstract

Recent movements towards a more open, intersectional, and inclusive academia (Birhane & Guest, 2020) focus on the need to address traditional power imbalances detrimentally affecting under-represented individuals (e.g., women: Pownall & Rogers, 2021; people of colour: Berhe et al., 2022; non-WEIRD [Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic] societies: Puithllam et al., 2022). Hitherto, neurodivergent perspectives —i.e. non-pathological variations in human brains (Walker, 2021)— are often overlooked and misunderstood within behavioural and cognitive sciences. It is common to encounter assumptions that anything outside of neurotypicality is at best dismissed as outlier data, or at worst, considered disadvantageous and in need of ‘fixing’ (e.g., Gernsbacher & Pripas-Kapit,
2012). Such viewpoints hinder a broader understanding of human behaviour and cognition.
Here, we call for more open and Participatory Research on neurodiversity through
addressing the issue of power imbalance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-27
Number of pages	5
Journal	The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscog.2023.1.8.23
Publication status	Published - 8 Mar 2023

Keywords

Neurodiversity
Open Scholarship
participatory research

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Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Kalandadze, T., Yeung, S. K., Azevedo, F., Iley, B., Phan, J. M., Ramji, A. V., Shaw, J. J., Zaneva, M., Dokovova, M., Hartmann, H., Kapp, S. K., Warrington, K. L., & Elsherif, M. M. (2023). Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 8, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscog.2023.1.8.23

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