Biography
Dr Croydon joined King’s in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher specialising in autism and intellectual disability. She was awarded a Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research on the impact of lived experience expertise in social care. She is now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), where she leads the qualitative component of a study examining how services support people with learning disabilities and autistic people at risk of admission to psychiatric hospital.
Abigail’s research focuses on social and cultural learning, social participation, and social care policy, and how these shape wellbeing. She is broadly interested in what people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are able to do and be in society—their capabilities, as understood within the capabilities approach to human development.
Research Interests
- Intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Social and cultural learning
- Social care
- Social participation
- Quality of life
- Capabilities approaches
Expertise and Public Engagement
Video-stimulated participatory methods
Work and employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities