Dr Catherine Crompton (MA (Hons), PhD)

Senior Research Fellow

  • Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research

Contact details

Address

Street

Child Life and Health
Royal Hospital for Children and Young People
50 Little France Cres

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4TJ
Street

Chancellors Building
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
49 Little France Cres

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4SB

Biography

Background

Catherine is a psychologist and researcher specialising in neurodiverse interaction in health, education and social care. Her interests are in understanding the diverse ways that people interact, how that differs for neurodivergent people, and the impact that this has on their lives. She has led lab-based projects examining how people interact in controlled settings, and applied work looking at interactions in health & social care, and at school. She has a particular interest in open science, participatory methods and community engagement. Her work has informed practice guidelines, for example for post-diagnostic support for autistic adults, for residential care providers on the needs of older autistic adults, and for social prescribing for autistic adults.

 

Catherine co-leads the EdInMind Lab - https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/people/edinmind 

 

For recent publications,  see PURE - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/catherine-crompton 

Qualifications

  • MA (Hons) Psychology (First Class) - University of Edinburgh (2013)
  • PhD Psychology (Human Cognitive Neuroscience) - University of Edinburgh (2017)

Postgraduate teaching

Co-Director: PhD programme in Translational Neuroscience

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Uffaq Mastoor

George Watts

Holly Sutherland 

 

Project activity

Catherine currently leads the Diversity in Social Intelligence project - an international collaboration  exploring how autistic and non-autistic people interact and share information https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/our-projects/diversity-in-social-intelligence-replication

She also leads the Neurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST) project, developing materials to facilitate peer support for neurodivergent young people in mainstream secondary schools - https://salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/research/nest-neurodivergent-peer-support-toolkit 

Current project grants

Catherine currently holds funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Medical Research Scotland, The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, and The Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre.

Past project grants

Catherine has previously been awarded funding by the Wellcome Trust, the MRC, the EPSRC, and Autistica. She has held Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and a Chancellor's Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh Medical School.

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