Guest Q&A: A Sibling Perspective

A Sibling Perspective:
Sharing the unique experiences of siblings with an autistic or disabled brother or sister
 

Come along and join us for a Facebook Live Q&A on Tuesday 24th May at 12 noon, with our guest speakers, a representative from Sibs UK and Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou from University College London hosted by Joanna Panese, Practice and Development Community Lead at Scottish Autism.

We are delighted to welcome a Sibs UK representative and Georgia to this upcoming session where we will hear about the work of Sibs, the only UK charity for children and adults who are growing up with or have grown up with a disabled brother or sister. Georgia will discuss some of the recent research work she has carried out around siblings’ experiences at school and siblings’ need.

There will also be an opportunity to ask questions during the live session.

Whilst this event is primarily for siblings, some parents or professionals working alongside families may find it useful.

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Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou is a lecturer based at the Department of Psychology and Human Development at University College London and is the lead autism workforce trainer at the Anna Freud Centre.

She is the founder of the Group for Research in Relationships in Neurodiversity.  Georgia is using a combination of behavioural, phenomenological and participatory techniques together with a developmental approach to understand social determinants of autistic mental health through autistic people’s personal accounts (stress, belonging, loneliness, low mood, family experiences).  Georgia has completed a number of projects with siblings across the lifespan and emancipated siblings to educate their local communities around disability issues as well as family mental health and siblings’ needs.  Her most recent research is looking at siblings’ experiences at school and siblings’ needs during the pandemic.

Georgia is committed to creative participatory health and educational research, co-producing work with community members.  Georgia has been leading national and international short courses for mental health practitioners who work in educational and NHS systems with neurodivergent young people funded by HEE.

Georgia is passionate about working with marginalised groups, service users, scholar activists to facilitate service transformation and advance mental health practice through better cross agency collaboration and better service user participation.

Georgia has been awarded as Co-Investigator by MRC/AHRC/ESRC Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind a research award focussing on coproducing research with Youth Panel and colleagues from Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Kings College London and UCL IOE.  This 4-year project focuses on prevention of depression in ASC/ADHD youth and translational mental health research in school settings.