The Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science is an annual prize to recognise and reward the University of Edinburgh’s outstanding science communicators in improving our society’s understanding of science and communicating the work of the University to those not within the scientific community.

Dr Sinead Rhodes is Senior Research Fellow at the Child Life and Health & Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences here at the University of Edinburgh. She has put neurodivergent young people at the heart of her research programme. As research scientists, how we choose to work, the efforts we choose to champion and how we support the PhD students and other research scientists around us makes contributions to our overall culture.

This talk was presented as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival 2023