Sawako Shinomiya

After completing a Master’s degree in the Faculty of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, I worked at Roland Berger’s Tokyo office and in the Data and AI Strategy Division at Recruit Co., Ltd. I am currently completing a PhD at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. My research explores how Euro-American concepts and therapeutic knowledge related to autism have been introduced and adapted in Japan. I also study and give public talks on the growing presence of neurodiversity, an advocacy movement originally developed in English-speaking contexts, and its adoption in Japan.