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Survival analysis deals with an outcome that is the time until a key event, from a suitable starting point. The archetypal context is human life, where death is the event. We are interested in studying the pattern of mortality, and what may influence the death rate. As in any interesting statistical context, there are research questions about the influence of explanatory variables.

The event could be of a different nature, and could even be something desirable, such as “resolution of symptoms”.

This talk will discuss the standard approaches used to analyse such data, which usually have to deal with “censoring” of some sort. This is what makes survival analysis special.

I will also outline a number of quirks and traps for the unwary: aspects of survival data and analysis that need attention. These include estimation of the mean survival, definitions of the time origin, defining groups on the basis of outcomes, composite outcomes, the “immortality bias”, interval censoring, and more.

For too long, neurodivergent women have been missing from the stories we tell about neurodivergence in research, education and popular culture.

That is changing.

The final Dean’s Lecture for 2026 brings together internationally recognised autistic actor and community advocate Chloé Hayden with three of the Faculty of Education’s leading neurodivergent researchers – Associate Professor Erin Hoare, Dr Sarah Timperley and Associate Research Fellow Jess Rowlings – to explore what happens when neurodivergent women are authors of knowledge and agents of change, using research and lived experience to challenge barriers and reshape how society understands neurodivergence.
From Chloe’s advocacy and work amplifying neurodivergent voices to research transforming how education systems understand and support neurodivergent women, the conversation will ask what becomes possible when lived experience is recognised as expertise.

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