Hey, I’m Katie Munday. My pronouns are they/he.

I am a PhD candidate in the School of Psychology, Sports and Health Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.

I am undertaking a four-year SCDTP-Funded project entitled: Exploring the Experiences of Transgender and Gender Diverse Autistic Adults in Accessing Health and Social Care in the UK.

I have been involved in community-based research in the VCSE sector since 2022. My work focuses on the accessibility of healthcare services for trans and/or disabled people.

I centre relationships and connections in my work, with my community and myself. I am honoured to share our stories as proof of our existence and to make changes.

Keep up with my PhD work here.

Research interests

• Autism and neurodivergence
• Trans and queer embodiments, life experiences and narratives
• Health and social care accessibility
• Mental health and substance use

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Portsmouth.  2024 – present
• MRes Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Portsmouth. 2022
• BA (Hons) Childhood & Youth Studies with Psychology, University of Portsmouth. 2020

recent research

Autistic Substance Use Network (2023 – present) – exploring Autistic people’s experiences of substance use and substance use services to support the creation and dissemination of resources and training with the NHS and other healthcare practitioners.

What I Would Like to Say (2022 – 2026) – exploring the cancer services experiences of disabled people to create resources for healthcare professionals to improve the accessibility of their services.

Trans Aware Cancer Care (2023 – 2026) – exploring the cancer services experiences of trans and gender-diverse people to create resources for healthcare professionals to improve their services. Working with the University Hospital Southampton mammography team to create a more equitable practice.

Other Research experience

Publications

• Munday, K., Kapp, S. K., & Morris, C. (2025). Transgender and gender diverse autistic adults’ experiences of (un)belonging. PLOS ONE, 20(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338569
• 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://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2024.0213
• 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 the humanities and social sciences. In H. Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist and D. Jackson-Perry’s (eds) Neurodiversity studies: research ethics and methods (pp. 309-324). Palgrave.
• Tansley, R., Corbin-Clarke, S., Munday, K., Durrant, A. and Hughes, M. (2024). “What I would like to say” findings: Cancer care for everyone. Journal of Community Nursing, 38 (1), 46-50. https://www.jcn.co.uk/journals/issue/02-2024/article/what-i-would-like-to-say-findings-cancer-care-for-everyone
• Bruce, H., Munday, K., & Kapp, S.K. (2023). Exploring the Experiences of Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary Adults in Seeking Gender Identity Healthcare. Autism and Adulthood, 5 (2), 191-203. http://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2023.0003

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If you are interested in working together please feel free to email me:

Katie.munday@port.ac.uk