Research practice
CNS develops its own research methods, designed for work with and by neurodivergent people and for reading cultural texts.
Neuroaffective reading
Attends to how texts produce, regulate and divert affect across divergent reading bodies. It reads for sensory and affective load as well as theme and symbol. Full entry.
Anagnorescence
Treats recognition as something that unfolds over time. As a method, it reads for the slow, often pre-diagnostic recognition of neurodivergence, in lives and in narratives, rather than for a single moment of revelation. Full entry.
Neurokinship
A research practice grounded in mutual recognition and support among neurodivergent people. It favours parallel co-presence and asynchronous time over the demands of conventional interviews and focus groups. Full entry.
Critical Neuronormative Discourse Analysis
Reads institutional texts for the cognitive-affective norm they assume, the forms of divergence they make legible and the forms they leave out. Full entry.
Research practices for neurodivergent researchers
Hyperfixation mapping, stim journaling and body doubling, with guidance for supervisors, graduate schools and research groups.
Co-developed measurement
Wellbeing measures are built with neurodivergent participants, starting from what wellbeing means to them, instead of fitting them to neurotypical scales.
Creative practice as research
Erasure, stim poetics and practice-led writing sit alongside scholarly publication.
These methods are developed and tested through the Neurodivergent Creative Methods Lab.
