Hey everyone, Kirsty here! I've been in the SPRINT team for a few years having completed an MSc in athlete mental health help-seeking and more recently an MA in Social science research methods as part of my ESRC funded PhD.
Image description: A photo of Kirsty Brown.
I’m super excited to say that I’ve officially just started my PhD on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in elite sport under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Cumming, Dr Mary Quinton and Professor Joht Chandan. I’m also thrilled to be collaborating with Sam Cumming and Allan Johnston from the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) and Stu Murphy from the England Cricket Board (ECB).
This PhD came about through my own lived experience, support from my key collaborators, and from lots of interest in blog post series I wrote a few years ago on ADHD and sport. As well as being a really important project to improve sport for those with ADHD, it is a project very important to me personally as I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Having been on my own post-diagnosis journey over the past few years, I am now much more open about my own diagnoses, and how this aligns with my research. I have just published a piece for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) What Your Patient is Thinking Series (WYPIT) series. In this article I discuss my experience of having surgery as a patient with ADHD and ASD, some of the challenges I faced, and my top tips for clinicians. Aligned with this I also talked in a BMJ webinar as a patient representative on their Known Unknowns series on ADHD about my own experiences of ADHD and medication.
Image description: A screenshot of Kirsty's BMJ What Your Patient is Thinking Series article.
If you’d like to see me talk a little more about the PhD please see the Instagram reel I did for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
October is ADHD awareness month so make sure to look out for resources and events that are going on!
Any questions please don’t hesitate to get in contact! X: @kirstykrb LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstykrb/
Image credit: Kirsty Brown and British Medical Journal.
Written by Kirsty Brown, PhD Researcher in the SPRINT Project.
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