Bio

Emma Ashwin, Ph.D.

Emma (Chapman) Ashwin is currently a Research Officer in the Department of Psychology at Bath University, and a Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Cambridge University. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychiatry in 2009 at Cambridge University. The focus of Dr. Ashwin’s Ph.D. program was on the influence of foetal testosterone on behavioural and brain development in children; and her MRI study was the first to examine, directly, the correlates between neural, hormonal, and behavioural measures. The results of her thesis have been or are due to be published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Social Neuroscience and Psychoneuroendocrinology. While in the Ph.D. program, she was also involved in running other key projects at the ARC, including The Transporters and Sensation and Perception in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Her current research aims to examine the use of emotional feedback in the development of teaching tools for children with autism.