Problems, voices and presences: a transdiagnostic approach to research.

Within academic psychology, doing clinical research – and working with groups and communities connected by a diagnosis or clinical need – can be a major challenge. Throughout my career I have been lucky to be involved in research in two such areas, focusing on i) cognition in autism and ii) perception in psychosis. In my lecture I talk about how my work has connected the two, primarily via the role of language, and how a transdiagnostic approach enhances our understanding of the radical diversity of human experience. Essential to this is the role of lived experience, which is changing the world of clinical research in new and exciting ways.