Draft:Robert Chapman

Robert Chapman is a British scholar and social theorist known for their contributions to neurodiversity theory. They are the first assistant professor of critical neurodiversity studies. They presently work at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Education
Chapman received their Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from the University of Essex in 2018. Their dissertation, Autism, Neurodiversity and the Good Life, was funded by the Shirley Foundation.

Career
Chapman has worked at the University of Bristol, King's College London, the University of Essex, and Sheffield Hallam University. From 2019 to 2021, they were a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where they studied neurodiversity and well-being. In 2023, they were invited as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In September of that year, they joined the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University as an assistant professor of Critical Neurodiversity Studies.

Their first book, Empire of Normality, was published by Pluto Press in November 2023.

Personal life
Chapman is neurodivergent.

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