Credits and team members

Authors

Dr Alyssa Alcorn is a visiting researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, with expertise around neurodiversity and education and participatory research methods. She is also the Research and Impact Lead for the Learning About Neurodiversity at School (LEANS) project at the University of Edinburgh

Natalia Zdorovtsova is a final-year PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her research focuses on the links between brain network organisation, neural dynamics, cognition, and behaviour in young people with neurodevelopmental differences. She is also interested in how we can construct educational systems that best support struggling learners.

Professor Duncan Astle is the Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinfomatics at the Department of Psychiatry, and a group leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences. He leads the 4D research group, which seeks to understand neurodevelopment in childhood and adolescence, with a particular focus on how diversity in brain organisation emerges over time.

Additional contributors

This resource includes contributions from the participants in the Diverse Trajectories to Good Developmental Outcomes Workshop (University of Cambridge, December 2022), the participants in the Delivering Inclusive Education Workshop (ITAKOM conference, Edinburgh, March 2023), and Dr Sian Lewis.

Technical credits

Illustrations and action cycle figure by Kristyna Baczynski

Graphic design by Simon Strangeways, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Funding

Development and release of the Belonging in School resource was made possible with funding from the Medical Research Council (MC-A0606-5PQ41) and by a donation from the Templeton World Charitable Foundation, as part of their Global Conference on the Science of Human Flourishing

We would also like to thank the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge for their support throughout this project.