Sarah Grant is an autistic PhD student and GTA based in the GladLab at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, researching central sensitisation in autism, and more broadly the lived experience of autistic people with chronic pain and related health conditions.

Sarah completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Essex, before starting an ESRC funded mixed method PhD at King’s in 2018.

Sarah’s research interests include the physical health of neurodivergent people, access to healthcare, autism and pain, language and communication, and intersectionality and identity.

In addition to their PhD, Sarah is also treasurer of the KCL Neurodiversity and Mental Health Society, and is a member of SARN, a co-operative network set up by co-chairs of the INSAR 2021 panel “Global Insights on Understanding and Reducing Autism Stigma” to connect people and encourage collaborative working and change around the stigmatisation of autistic people both inside and outside autism research.