Aimee Grant

Aimee Grant is an Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at Swansea University Centre for Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation. She has researched marginalised pregnancy and early motherhood for the past decade, including those living in poverty, stigmatised locations and Disabled women. She is Autistic and Disabled, including using a wheelchair. Since 2021, Aimee's research has increasingly focused on Autistic people's experiences of maternity. Aimee's current research is an 8 year longitudinal study using visual methods to understand Autistic experiences "from menstruation to menopause" (find out more about the project at: https://www.autismmenstruationtomenopause.com/ ). She is the author of two Documentary Analysis texts (Routledge, 2019; Policy Press, 2022), and The Autism Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, birth and the fourth trimester will be published by Jessica Kingsley in 2025.