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Is your PhD supervisor neurodivergent?

Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It's a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently under review, but available via pre-print here. Doing this paper was an exercise in mixed feelings. It was an absolute joy to work with my colleagues, who knew far more about this topic than me and taught me (finally!) how to do a proper systematic review using…

https://thesiswhisperer.com/2025/05/01/neurodivergentphdsupervisors/

Is your PhD supervisor neurodivergent?

Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently under review, but…

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nellie-m 5d ago

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„The irony is that by making the PhD more accessible to neurodivergent thinkers, we might actually be raising standards – allowing truly innovative minds to contribute rather than filtering them out through irrelevant barriers ... The real threat to academic standards isn’t accommodation – it’s the loss of brilliant, unconventional thinkers who could push knowledge boundaries in ways we haven’t yet imagined.“

wonderful read.

https://thesiswhisperer.com/2025/05/01/neurodivergentphdsupervisors/

Is your PhD supervisor neurodivergent?

Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently under review, but…

The Thesis Whisperer

„Universities tend to treat neurodivergence as an individual problem requiring individual accommodations rather than recognising systemic barriers. This puts the burden on students to disclose, request support, and advocate for themselves – precisely the executive function and communication challenges many neurodivergent students struggle with.“

great read:
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2025/05/01/neurodivergentphdsupervisors/

(not just universities, though…)

#actuallyAutistic #adhd

Is your PhD supervisor neurodivergent?

Recently, some colleagues and I released a paper about the experiences of neurodivergent PhD students. It’s a systematic review of the literature to date, which is currently under review, but…

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Jeff 5d ago

@nellie_m @thesiswhisperer 1,000% this! I work at a university and decided it would be fun to take some classes. I've found out, the hard way, that while I was able to muddle through when I was a young man, I'm too old and not used to classrooms. I also have OPINIONS about how to teach that don't mix well with the traditional educational paradigm.

When I taught a few classes at the community college, I very much worked to get away from the forced rote memorization, regurgitate info on the tests style of teaching. I thought it was far more important to show how to use the professional tools I've used and in some cases developed, and let the students prove that they could think about a problem and work through it than to just cram info into their brains that they'd rapidly forget the moment they put down the pencil and walked out the room (at best).