Jenn Layton Annable is a doctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, supported by the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training and NIHR MindTech. Their research explores how autistic people perceived as female, particularly those with complex bodymind experiences, understand selfhood, identity and personal meaning through digital data and the infrastructures that shape it.

Their doctoral project, Autistographic Being, Becoming, Owning, sits between neurodiversity studies, mad studies, feminist theory, digital mental health and qualitative inquiry. It uses interpretive qualitative methods, including autoethnography, participant research, focus groups, digital ethnography, semi-structured interviews, member checking and reflexive thematic analysis.

Jenn’s wider work examines diagnosis, sensory experience, mental health, lived-experience knowledge and the politics of evidence. Their publications include contributions to Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm, a British Journal of Psychiatry response on neurodiversity terminology, and Bleeding Insanity in Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World and public knowledge production.