Gemma Williams

Dr Gemma Williams is an autistic autism researcher, musician and ex-beekeeper, living in Sussex.

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She has written articles for The Conversation and contributed to:

📚'Stim: An Autistic Anthology' (ed. Huxley-Jones)

📚'The Neurodiversity Reader: Exploring concepts, lived experience and implications for practice' (ed. Milton)

📚'The Double Empathy Reader: Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice' (ed. Milton)

📚'The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies' (eds. Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and Jackson-Perry)

📚Aghh! Zine

Gemma is a linguist by heart, but following her ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Brighton in Social Policy, her research interests have extended to more social justice-related issues, including: autistic people’s experiences of loneliness, barriers to healthcare for neurodivergent people, sensory environments of public spaces and, most recently autistic reproductive and gynecological healthcare.

Gemma is a member of the Westminster Commission on Autism and an Associate with the National Development Team for Inclusion where she’s contributed to a number of commissioned reports, projects and inquiries aimed at improving service provision for autistic and neurodivergent people within the UK, NHS England and Local Authorities.