Dr Catherine Crompton (MA (Hons), PhD)

Chancellors Fellow

  • Division of Psychiatry
  • Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Kennedy Tower
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Morningside Terrace

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH10 5HF

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)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Holly Sutherland 

George Watts

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, Autistica and an Institute for Advance Studies in the Humanities Fellowship

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