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Katie is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR) at Bath. Her current work, funded by the ESRC, focuses on how autistic adults think and communicate differently, and what adaptations service providers can make to accommodate these differences. Katie is particularly interested in how autistic people fare when they are interviewed by the police as a witness or as a suspect of an alleged offence. For example, her research shows that current police interviewing techniques do not elicit ‘best evidence’ from autistic individuals and that interviewers need to adapt their questioning styles in order to obtain detailed, relevant and accurate information about an event from them. She is currently extending this work under an ESRC ‘Future Research Leaders’ grant to explore how employers and healthcare professionals can adapt the ways that they communicate with autistic job seekers and patients. Katie works with a range of policy makers and end-user organisations, including a close collaboration with Avon and Somerset police.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Autism
- Criminal justice system
- Employment
- Investigative interviewing
- Forensic psychology
- Memory
- Cognition
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ESRC Policy Fellowship - Home Office Cybercrime
Maras, K., Maras, K. & Maras, K.
Economic and Social Research Council
11/02/22 → 10/08/23
Project: Research council
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EPS small grant credibility study of autistic interviewees (employment interviews)
Maras, K. & Norris, J.
EPS - Experimental Psychology Society
20/05/19 → 19/11/21
Project: UK charity
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IAA REF Autism Awareness
Brosnan, M., Ashwin, C., Maras, K. & Russell, A.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/04/19 → 31/10/19
Project: Research council
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The Effect of Working Memory Load on Effective Information Filtering in Autism Spectrum Disorder
1/05/15 → 30/04/18
Project: Research council
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Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Story research: A scoping study of published, peer-reviewed literature reviews
Camilleri, L., Maras, K. & Brosnan, M., 1 Mar 2022, In: Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 9, 1, p. 21-38 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Deceptive behaviour in autism: A scoping review
Bagnall, R., Russell, A., Brosnan, M. & Maras, K., 1 Feb 2022, In: Autism. 26, 2, p. 293-307Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Supporting autistic adults’ episodic memory recall in interviews: The role of executive functions, theory of mind, and language abilities
Norris, J. & Maras, K., 1 Feb 2022, In: Autism. 26, 2, p. 513-524Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Impact of Using Digitally-Mediated Social Stories on the Perceived Competence and Attitudes of Parents and Practitioners Supporting Children with Autism
Camilleri, L., Maras, K. & Brosnan, M., 18 Jan 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 1, e0262598.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ameliorating the Disadvantage for Autistic Job Seekers: An Initial Evaluation of Adapted Employment Interview Questions
Maras, K., Norris, J., Nicholson, J., Heasman, B., Remington, A. & Crane, L., 1 May 2021, In: Autism. 25, 4, p. 1060-1075Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dataset for "Informed, involved or empowered? A typology of Western European autism policy, with a focus on designing policies for autistic empowerment"
Precious, K. (Creator), Milner, S. (Supervisor), Engeli, I. (Supervisor) & Maras, K. (Supervisor), University of Bath, 20 Sep 2020
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00867
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Interviewing autistic adults: Adaptations to support recall in police, employment and healthcare interviews 2017-2019
Maras, K. (Creator), UK Data Service, 12 Nov 2019
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Metacognitive monitoring and control of eyewitness memory reports in autism 2017-2019
Maras, K. (Creator), UK Data Service, 5 Feb 2020
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Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers: An initial evaluation of adapted employment interview questions 2017-2020
Maras, K. (Creator), UK Data Service, 14 Jan 2021
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The witness-aimed first account: A new technique for interviewing autistic witnesses and victims, experimental data 2017-2019
Maras, K. (Creator), UK Data Service, 5 Feb 2020
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