Dr Daniel Poole
School of Psychology
Lecturer
Full contact details
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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I joined the department in 2021 to take up an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) New Investigator Award. Before this I worked at the University of Manchester: I completed a Medical Research Council funded PhD investigating multisensory processing in autistic adults in 2015 (PI Dr Ellen Poliakoff), then worked in a teaching focused role before taking up a Research Associate position on an ESRC-funded project investigating timing processes in autism (PI Dr Luke Jones).
I began working as a Lecturer in 2023.
- Qualifications
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Psychology (PhD), University of Manchester
Psychology with Sociology (BSc), University of Leicester
- Research interests
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I am an autism and neurodiversity researcher with a general focus on the experiences of autistic adults. I have a commitment to participatory research and community partnership across my work. My major research interests are:
Attention and neurodivergence
I have a long standing interest in autistic selective attention. Recently, my work in this area has coalesced around monotropism theory, which is an interest based theory of attention which was developed by autistic scholars. I have also been thinking about attention as a situated experience, exploring how environments creates barriers and facilitators for attention function.
Neuro-inclusion
I research neuro-inclusion, investigating how environments and systems can better support neurodivergent people. My work in this area has spanned primary healthcare, employment and higher education.
Relatedly, I am interested in improved post-diagnostic support for neurodivergent adults.
Meta autism research
I am interested in how autism research is conducted and how it can be improved, particularly around open research practice. Working within the neurodiversity paradigm can present interesting challenges and opportunities for the use of open research practices and my work in this area has explored how autism research can be conducted in a transparent, ethical and participatory way.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- ‘No idea of time’: Parents report differences in autistic children’s behaviour relating to time in a mixed-methods study. Autism, 25(6), 1797-1808.
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2498-2509.
- Guidelines for conducting research studies with the autism community. Autism Policy and Practice, 2(1), 29-45. View this article in WRRO
- Investigating Visual–Tactile Interactions over Time and Space in Adults with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3316-3326.
- Visual-tactile selective attention in autism spectrum condition: An increased influence of visual distractors.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1309-1324.
All publications
Journal articles
- Acceptability and usability of the International Classification of Functioning CoreSets for Autism platform: Evaluation by U.K. autistic adults. Neurodiversity, 4.
- Feasibility of the ICF CoreSets for Autism Strengths and Needs Assessment in NHS diagnostic services in England: protocol for a randomised pilot trial. BMJ Open, 16(3), e103303-e103303.
- EXPRESS: Can location cues facilitate attentional suppression?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- A systematic review of pre-registration in autism research journals. Autism, 29(6), 1390-1402. View this article in WRRO
- ‘You should definitely have known that’: University experiences of Biosciences and Psychology undergraduate students from a widening participation background. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 26(3), 39-63.
- Putting the spotlight back onto the flanker task in autism: autistic adults show increased interference from foils compared with non-autistic adults. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). View this article in WRRO
- ‘A storm of post-it notes’: experiences of perceptual capacity in autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity, 2. View this article in WRRO
- When 2 become 1: autistic simultaneity judgements about asynchronous audiovisual speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(9), 1865-1882. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the post-diagnostic support priorities of autistic adults in the United Kingdom: a co-produced modified Delphi study. Autism, 28(4), 854-865. View this article in WRRO
- Opening up autism research: Bringing open research methods to our field. Autism, 26(5), 1011-1013.
- ‘No idea of time’: Parents report differences in autistic children’s behaviour relating to time in a mixed-methods study. Autism, 25(6), 1797-1808.
- Time perception in autistic adults: Interval and event timing judgements do not differ from non-autistics.
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2498-2509.
- Click Trains do not Alter Auditory Temporal Order Judgements. Timing & Time Perception, 8(3-4), 239-253.
- Guidelines for conducting research studies with the autism community. Autism Policy and Practice, 2(1), 29-45. View this article in WRRO
- Guidelines for conducting research studies with the autism community.. Autism Policy Pract, 2(1 A new beginning), 29-45.
- Similarities in Autistic and Neurotypical Visual–Haptic Perception When Making Judgements About Conflicting Sensory Stimuli. Multisensory Research, 30(6), 509-536.
- Brief Report: Which Came First? Exploring Crossmodal Temporal Order Judgements and Their Relationship with Sensory Reactivity in Autism and Neurotypicals. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(1), 215-223.
- Investigating Visual–Tactile Interactions over Time and Space in Adults with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3316-3326.
- Adapting the Crossmodal Congruency Task for Measuring the Limits of Visual–Tactile Interactions Within and Between Groups. Multisensory Research, 28(3-4), 227-244.
- Participatory systems mapping: Can this approach improve how services work for autistic people?. Autism.
- Time perception in autistic adults: Interval and event timing judgments do not differ from nonautistics.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2666-2682.
- Visual-tactile selective attention in autism spectrum condition: An increased influence of visual distractors.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1309-1324.
- Spatio-Temporal Structure, Path Characteristics, and Perceptual Grouping in Immediate Serial Spatial Recall. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
Preprints
- Open Data in Autism Research: The Views of Autistic People and Parents of Autistic Children, Center for Open Science.
- Participatory Systems Mapping to Explore Underserved Autistic People's Journey through Primary Healthcare, Center for Open Science.
- Exploring the phenomenology of autistic attention, Center for Open Science.
- Acceptability and Usability of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) CoreSets for Autism platform: Evaluation by UK Adults, Center for Open Science.
- Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children, Center for Open Science.
- Acceptability and Usability of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) CoreSets for Autism platform: Evaluation by UK Adults, Center for Open Science.
- Protocol for a feasibility study and randomised pilot trial of the ICF Core Sets for Autism Strength and Needs Assessment in NHS diagnostic services, Center for Open Science.
- A review of pre-registration in autism research journals, Center for Open Science.
- Putting the spotlight back onto the flanker task in autism: autistic adults show increased interference from foils compared with non-autistic adults., Center for Open Science.
- Understanding the Post-Diagnostic Support Priorities of Autistic Adults in the UK: A Co-Produced Modified Delphi Study, Center for Open Science.
- ‘No idea of time’: Parents report differences in autistic children’s behaviour relating to time in a mixed-methods study. Autism, 25(6), 1797-1808.
- Grants
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- 2025 NIHR Work and Health Award (co-I): Neurodivergence at Work: ensuring employment meets the needs of neurodivergent people - £118,322
- 2025 NIHR PDG (co-PI): Participatory Systems Mapping with Underserved Autistic Adults: Co-Designing Health and Social Care Solutions Through Creative Arts - £148,622
- 2024 NIHR RfPB (co-I): Evaluating a Standardised Post-diagnostic Strengths and Needs Assessment for Autistic Adults: an Acceptability and Feasibility Study - £249,883
- 2022 SBRI Healthcare (co-I): Co-development of Personalised Support Profiles for Autistic Adults using ICF CoreSets for Autism - £99,972
- 2021 Screen Industries Growth Network (co-I): A3i Accessible Audio for Autism - £75,000
- 2021 ESRC New Investigator Award (PI): What You Can’t Ignore: Examining Distraction in Autism - £213,637
- Teaching activities
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PSY343 Neurodiversity (module organiser)
PSY1002 Cognitive Psychology 1
PSY331 Extended Essay in Psychology
PSY346 Research Project in Psychology
PSY6422 Data Management and Visualisation
MSc supervision
DClinPsy supervision
- Professional activities and memberships
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School of Psychology Equality, DIversity and Inclusion Lead
School of Psychology REF SPRE Lead
Deputy Editor Autism in Adulthood
- PhD Opportunities
I am happy to receive applications for PhD study in my area of research.
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
For further information, please see the department PhD Opportunities page.