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Title: Ms. Job Title: Egenis Research Student Tel: 01392 725138 Fax: Email: g.russell@exeter.ac.uk Building: Byrne House Room Number: FF8
I have an interdisciplinary academic background that straddles social science and biomedicine. My first degree was in Psychology at the University of Bristol, my second in Film and Television at the London Institute, and my Masters (passed with distinction) was in Bioinformatics at Exeter University. My PhD research used qualitative and quantitative methods and was funded by the ESRC and MRC at the intersection of Epidemiology, Sociology and Developmental Psychology, studying the implications of a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders for parents and children.
Before joining Egenis I spent 10 years working in television. I trained as a researcher at the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol, and went on to become a television producer/director. My television credits include The Really Wild Show and Nature Detectives for the BBC, the science magazine show What Will They Think of Next? for Granada (ITV), the astronomy programmes Three Minutes to Impact and Eclipse for Discovery, and Cross Country for HTV. I produced and directed the local wildlife show Wild West Country for Carlton for several years, which initially brought me to Devon. Because of my background in TV I have conducted over 1,000 interviews and have a strong interest in film and photography.
In 2002 I joined Egenis in a communications role, developing the Centre’s communications strategy, editing the Genomics Network Magazine and programming the British Association’s Science in the City festival in 2004. During my PhD studies I was retained as by the Centre as Public Engagement Officer and am still involved in science communication through various activities including Exeter’s Café Scientifique.
I have written for several lay publications including The Times Educational Supplement and Britain Today. I have also freelanced as a reporter for Radio 4’s Natural History Programme and Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
Russell, G. and Norwich, B., Dilemmas, diagnosis and de-stigmatisation: Parental perspectives on autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (in press)
Russell, G. and Kelly, S., Looking beyond risk: a study of lay epidemiology of childhood disorders. Health, Risk and Society, 13 (2), 2011: 129-145
Russell, G., Steer, C. and Golding J., Social and demographic factors that influence the diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Online First) October 2010
Russell, G., Kelly, S., & Golding, J., A qualitative analysis of lay beliefs about the aetiology and prevalence of autistic spectrum disorders. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36 (3), 2009: 431-436
Russell, G., Ford, T., Steer, C., Golding, J., Identification of children with the same level of impairment as children on the autistic spectrum, and analysis of their service use. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51 (3), 2010: 643 - 651
Presentations:
ALSPAC and the social determinates of autism - invited seminar, North European Cohort series, University of Aarhus, 4 April 2011
Parental perspectives on autism - Special Educational Needs Research Group, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, 15 February 2011
The developmental trajectory of prosocial behaviour for autistic children enrolled in the ALSPAC cohort - Bristol Autism Group, University of Bristol, 14 December 2010
Diagnosis of childhood disorders: Psychological and social implications - Plymouth Autism Network, University of Plymouth, 24 November 2010
Public engagement: Why it matters - Keynote address: Engaging with Radical Ideas Conference, University of Exeter, 22 November 2010
Social and demographic factors that influence the diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders. Autism 2010, Autism Cymru 6th International on-line conference, Awares Conference Centre, 1-7 November, 2010
The challenge of getting a representative sample of the public to engage with science - Science and the Public, July 2010, Imperial College, London.
The muddle of mixing- problems of an interdisciplinary and mixed methods design - University of Plymouth, May 2010
Autism: to diagnose or not to diagnose? - PMS Child Health Group seminar, September 2009
Funding for public engagement: whose agenda? - Two way public engagement conference, Copenhagen University, August 2009
Explanations of the increasing prevalence of Autistic Spectrum Disorders: ‘lay’ and ‘expert’ perspectives - Egenis seminar, May 2009
Identifying undiagnosed children on the autism spectrum – HUSS conference, University of Exeter, May 2009
A study of “lay” correspondence to “expert” epidemiologists’ - Publics: Embodied, Imagined, Performed, Cesagen workshop, Lancaster University 27- 28 January, 2009.
Is commercial science fairly reported? Royal Society, London, 18 December 2002
My study examines the function of diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) for parents of children with autistic-type difficulties. In tandem with this, the project uses data from The Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to analyse whether ASD diagnosis (and subsequent interventions) have led to better or worse outcomes.
My supervisors on this project were Prof. Brahm Norwich, an educational psychologist, Prof. Huw Williams, a clinical psychologist and at ALSPAC Prof. Jean Golding, an epidemiologist and the former director of ALSPAC.
I continue to collaborate with the statisticians Colin Steer and Laura Miller at ALSPAC, the child psychiatrist Dr Tamsin Ford at PMS and the paediatrician Dr Alan Emond at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Bristol.
As a docotoral student I conducted a second qualitative study with Dr Susan Kelly on lay understandings of the aetiology of autism, again with the help of Prof. Jean Golding.
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