Clare Lawrence is the English subject lead on the secondary PGCE course at Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU). She is a graduate of York, Oxford, Northumbria, Birmingham and Sheffield Hallam universities, is head of participatory autism research at BGU and is the East Midlands convenor for the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC). Together with Helen Bushell-Thornalley, Lyndsay Muir and Reader in Access, Equality and Inclusion Sheine Peart, Clare is co-founder of BGU’s new Base for Research on Inclusion, Diversity and Equality (BRIDgE).