Michael English
Senior Research Officer
BSc Honours (Psych.); PhD
michael.english@thekids.org.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cw-english/he/him
Michael is a Senior Project Officer with the ‘Embrace’ research group within the Youth Mental Health team. He works to support the group on projects related to assessing dissociation in childhood and adolescents, and improving parent interactions with the WA Newborn Emergency Transport Service. Having grown up in country WA, he has a passion for improving mental health outcomes for rural residents.
Before joining the Youth Mental Health Team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, Michael was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia. His research focus was in the area of autism, cognition and attention. He helped lead an ARC Discovery Project to develop a new measure of autistic traits in adults (www.cati-autism.com), which has been translated into over 10 different languages in the first 3 years since it was published.
On Saturday mornings, you can find Michael participating at a local parkrun. He also helps produce a podcast (‘Mental Work’) with his partner that discusses topics and issues relevant to early career psychologists working in Australia.
Published research
Psychometric evaluation of the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory in autistic and non-autistic adults
Measures of autistic traits are only useful – for pre-diagnostic screening, exploring individual differences, and gaining personal insight – if they efficiently and accurately assess autism as currently conceptualised while maintaining psychometric validity across different demographic groups. We recruited 1322 autistic and 1279 non-autistic adults who varied in autism status (non-autistic, diagnosed autistic, self-identifying autistic) and gender (cisgender men, cisgender women, gender diverse) to assess the psychometric properties of the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory, a recently developed measure of autistic traits that examines six trait domains using 42 self-report statements.
Education and Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy – University of Western Australia
- Bachelor of Science with Honours (Psychology) – University of Western Australia
Awards/Honours
- 2022 - Rising Stars of Science Finalist, University of Western Australia
- 2018 – Best Student Presentation, Australian Society for Autism Research