I have my major review coming up in October. This review looks at my progress so far and will essentially take me from a PhD student to a PhD candidate. The major review is an opportunity for me to take stock of all the amazing academic and academic-adjacent things I’ve done this year. And there’s been a lot.

My proudest academic achievement this year was organising and leading the Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies with Robin Skyer and Fraedan Manstrantonio. Our full-day symposium was at the University of Southampton on June 11th. I invited the guest keynote speaker, Robert Chapman, and many panellists. I also led the “Mad Studies and knowledge creation inside and outside of the academy” panel with David Gray-Hammond, Priscilla Eyles and Jessica Dark. I’m really pleased that all those years of social media experience could be used to secure 60+ attendees online and 25 people in person. No mean feat for three PhD students!

This year I have also presented at:

• Queer Acts of Hope Symposium, TVCE;
• Trans Liberation Now! Conference, Feminist Gender Equality Network;
• Trans+ Research Conference, Beyond Reflections;
• Empowering Women’s Health Conference, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board;
• LGBTIQ+ Cancer Conference, OUTpatients
• Neurodiversity in Higher Education, York St John University.

I’ve also been busy writing and publishing on health and social care inequity and the process of being a lived experience researcher:

• Predictors of Depression and Anxiety Among Self-Medicating Autistic Adults.
• Double empathy and the double rainbow: Healthcare inequities for gender diverse Autistic adults.
• Improving substance use services for autistic adults: Insights and recommendations from autistic adults.
• Shifting Research Paradigms in Gender Diverse Autistic Research.
• The inaccessibility of UK universities’ ethics applications in humanities and social sciences.

I’m grateful for the amazing editors and journals that have treated me the same as more established researchers and writers. I am proud to have worked alonside Damien Milton, Hanna Bertisldotter-Rosqvist, David Jackson-Perry, Anna Day, Meghan Krazinski, Chris Papadopoulos and many other amazing neurodivergent autism researchers.

Currently, I have three other papers, and a chapter on the go – more on those in my review next year. I am also excited to continue our co-researcher group, to dig in to methodology, and to talk with more trans autistic people next year. I’ve got two modules, an internship, and a presentation at an autistic mental health conference coming up too.

I’m keeping humble (and busy!) but appreciating all the things I’ve done this year. What a year.

My work

Presentations

Munday, K. (July, 2025). Coming into my power as a trans Autistic researcher (presentation). Queer Acts of Hope Symposium, TVCE.

Munday, K. (June, 2025). Exploring health and social care inequities for transgender and gender diverse Autistic adults living in the UK (presentation). Trans Liberation Now! Conference, Feminist Gender Equality Network.

Munday, K. (May, 2025). Non-Binary Researcher Collective (panellist). Trans+ Research Conference, Beyond Reflections.

Munday, K., Ranglov, D., & Hand, Z. (May, 2025). Trans Aware Cancer Care (presentation). Trans+ Research Conference, Beyond Reflections.

Munday, K. (March, 2025). LGBTQ and inclusivity in women’s health (panellist). Empowering Women’s Health Conference, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board.

Munday, K., Hand, Z., & Bolton-Heaton, N. (Nov, 2024). Trans Aware Cancer Care (presentation). LGBTIQ+ Cancer Conference, OUTpatients.

Goodwin, C., & Munday, K. (Nov, 2024). Exploring autism and cancer (fireside chat). LGBTIQ+ Cancer Conference, OUTpatients.

Munday, K. (Sept, 2024). Applying for PhD as a transgender Autistic person (poster). Neurodiversity in Higher Education, York St John University.

Publications

Papadopoulos, C., Adkin, T., Munday, K., & Gray-Hammond, D. (2025). Predictors of Depression and Anxiety Among Self-Medicating Autistic Adults. Neurodiversity, 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330251344453

Munday, K. (2025). Double empathy and the double rainbow: Healthcare inequities for gender diverse Autistic adults. In D.Milton’s (ed) Double Empathy Reader (pp. 433 -442). Pavilion.

Munday, K., Papadopoulos, C., Adkin, T., & Gray-Hammond, D. (2025). Improving substance use services for autistic adults: Insights and recommendations from autistic adults. Autism in Adulthood, 00 (00), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.021

Munday, K (2024). Shifting Research Paradigms in Gender Diverse Autistic Research. In H.Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, A.Day and M.Krazinski’s (eds) Living Under a Double Rainbow: Exploring Autistic genders, sexualities, and relationality (pp – 46-58). Routledge.

Munday, K (2024). The inaccessibility of UK universities’ ethics applications in humanities and social sciences. In H. Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist and D. Jackson-Perry’s (eds) Neurodiversity studies: research ethics and methods (pp 309-324). Palgrave.

If you need help accessing any of these papers please email me on autistic_ltd@outlook.com