Advisory Board
Trusted experts helping shape Divergent Thinking's work on neurodiversity and inclusive workplace design. Our Advisory Board brings together leading academic and sector voices. Their insight keeps our work grounded, evidence-informed, and practically useful.
Professor Nelya Koteyko
Professor of Language and Communication
Nelya’s research focuses on language, autism, autistic sociality, and digital inclusion, bringing a communication-centred lens to neuroinclusion. Her work is especially valuable in showing how online systems and digital spaces can unintentionally exclude autistic people when they are built around neurotypical communication norms.
She joined Divergent Thinking through QMUL workshops, with a focus on autistic-inclusive digital communication and workplace accessibility.
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Lecturer in Organisation Studies and HRM
Assistant Professor of Spirituality & Society
Raysa’s work sits at the intersection of organisational behaviour, business ethics, wellbeing, and workplace relationships, with a focus on how environments shape inclusion and everyday experience at work. She is currently the Principal Investigator of The British Academy-funded research project researching neurodivergent workers and well-being, exploring how communication and organisational dynamics impact career development, job satisfaction and workers' well-being.
She joined Divergent Thinking following their lead on the co-creation event on neurodivergent workers and wellbeing at Essex Business School.
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Dr Raysa Rocha
Dr Judith Gentle
Senior Lecturer in Psychology · Director of the MoDI Lab
Judith’s research centres on Developmental Coordination Disorder (dyspraxia), focusing on how motor and coordination differences impact participation, wellbeing, and outcomes across education and work. Her work through the Motor Development and Impact (MoDI) Lab explores these challenges across the lifespan and highlights the wider social and cognitive impact of coordination difficulties.
She joined Divergent Thinking through collaboration with Surrey’s DCD research team, including Surrey’s Dyspraxia Awareness Day, bringing expertise in inclusive practice and under-recognised neurodivergent profiles.
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Principal Academic in Learning Design
Camila’s work focuses on socio-emotional intelligence, humanising practice, and inclusive learning design, bringing a relational, wellbeing-centred lens to neuroinclusion. Her research explores how education systems can better support belonging, transition, and student experience, with a strong emphasis on translating theory into practical change.
She joined Divergent Thinking through a collaborative chapter, with a shared focus on turning research into clear, applied guidance for neuroinclusion.
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Dr Camila Devis-Rozental
Dr Aliah Shaheen
Reader in Biomechanics
Aliah's work focuses on biomechanics, movement coordination, and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), bringing a movement-centred lens to neuroinclusion. Her research explores how coordination differences impact participation, performance, and access across education and work (see her work at Brunel University London).
She joined Divergent Thinking through collaboration on neuroinclusion initiatives, with a focus on DCD, participation, and translating research into more inclusive environments.
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Principal Academic in Psychology
Rachel's research centres on autism and the challenges autistic people can face across adulthood, with a particular focus on mental health, suicidality, self-injury, late diagnosis, camouflaging, and menopause. As an autistic person, she brings a strong wellbeing-centred lens to neuroinclusion, combining cognitive neuroscience, lived experience, and practical impact. She is also Deputy Editor at Autism in Adulthood, a leading journal dedicated to the most pressing issues affecting autistic adults from emerging adulthood to later life.
She joined Divergent Thinking following our connection through the NAS South Hampshire event, bringing expertise in autistic wellbeing, stigma reduction, and improving life outcomes for autistic adults.
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Dr Rachel Moseley
Why It Matters
Neuroinclusion cuts across communication, culture, education, wellbeing, systems, and lived experience.
No single discipline holds all the answers.
Grounded in Evidence
Advisory input ensures our work reflects current research and real-world complexity.
Credible and Rigorous
Expert challenge keeps our thinking honest, robust, and sector-ready.
Practically Useful
We turn specialist insight into guidance that works in real organisational settings.