Neurodivergence: Diagnosis Normal

Emma A Jane is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts & Media at UNSW Sydney. Her research focuses on the social and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Currently, her special interests include building open-source AI prototypes for educators and researchers, writing a book about the metaverse, and investigating whether ethical tech design might help make the internet less of a flaming dumpster fire. For the past two years, Stanford University has ranked her in the top 2% of researchers globally across all fields based on citations of her work. Before joining academia, Emma spent 25 years working in the print, broadcast, and electronic media, winning multiple awards for her writing and investigative reporting and always saying all the wrong things at all the wrong times. Her memoir Diagnosis normal: Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism and COVID-grade crazy was published by Penguin Random House in March 2022. She is neurodiverse, non-binary, and identifies as a ‘sweet weirdo’.

Clem Bastow's debut nonfiction book, Late Bloomer: How An Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life (Hardie Grant Books) was published in July 2021, and they have worked as a neurodiversity consultant for television. Clem’s writing appears regularly in The Guardian, and they have contributed chapters to books including Investigating Stranger Things (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), ReFocus: The Films Of Elaine May (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and CopyFight (NewSouth Publishing, 2015). Clem has written for TV shows including The Spooky Files (ABC/BBC, 2023) and RocKwiz (SBS, 2005-2011), and they co-wrote and co-presented the 2017 ABC podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep dive” into professional wrestling. Clem is currently completing a PhD in action cinema and screenwriting at RMIT University. They live and work on Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne with their dog, Milly.

Sana Qadar is an award-winning podcaster and journalist whose work has featured on the ABC, BBC, SBS, Al Jazeera, and NPR to name a few. Sana hosts All in the Mind on ABC Radio National, which won a 2022 Australian Podcast Award for Best Health and Wellbeing pod. She also co-hosts the SBS podcast, Eyes on Gilead.