Rethinking ADHD: Voices from Research, Practice and Lived Experience is a podcast mini-series produced for the British Education Research Association (黑料不打烊), bringing together researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience to explore what ADHD and neurodiversity really mean in educational settings, and what it would take to do better. Across six episodes, the series moves from the theoretical foundations of Critical ADHD Studies through questions of epistemic injustice, school culture, co-occurring conditions and the social world of neurodivergent young people, drawing on recent scholarship and the expertise of guests who have spent careers and lifetimes thinking about these questions.
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist returns as sole guest for this episode, which deepens the ‘unknowing’ thread established in Episode 1. Now Professor of Social Work at Karlstad University, her research career began in gender and sexuality studies before transitioning into disability research in 2008, where she has remained working at the intersection of neurodiversity studies, social work and the lived experience of autism and ADHD. She is AuDHD herself. Her collective autoethnographic work with neurodivergent scholars (Bertilsdotter Rosqvist et al. 2023a, 2023b, 2023c) provides the primary source material, alongside the CADS chapter and emerging AuDHD scholarship, particularly Craddock (2024, 2026) on AuDHD as a residual diagnostic category that falls outside and between existing definitions of autism and ADHD.
The episode addresses the generational dimension directly: the pre-2013 diagnostic exclusion of co-occurring autism and ADHD left a generation without the full picture of themselves. Questions move from the historical to the experiential to the practical, asking what AuDHD-affirming practice would actually look like in educational settings.
References and further resources:
Stenning, A., & Rosqvist, H. B. (2021). Neurodiversity studies: Mapping out possibilities of a new critical paradigm. Disability & society, 36(9), 1532-1537.
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm, P., & Sandberg, G. (2025). Naming ourselves, becoming neurodivergent scholars. Disability & Society, 40(1), 128-147.
Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm, P., & Sandberg, G. (2023). Intensity and variable attention: Counter narrating ADHD, from ADHD deficits to ADHD difference. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(8), 3647-3664.
Craddock, E. (2024/2026). Navigating residual diagnostic categories: the lived experiences of women diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood. Sociology of Health and Illness. DOI: 10.1177/13634593251336163
University of Cumbria
Dustin Hosseini works across health science, education and critical pedagogy as a Lecturer in Health Science at the Centre of Excellence in Paramedic Practice at the University of Cumbria, an Associate Tutor in the School of Education at the...
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist is Professor of Social Work at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a leading figure in neurodiversity studies whose research spans autism, ADHD and the lived experience of neurodivergence. Her collective...