Dr Holly Sutherland

Research Associate
University of Cambridge
 

Holly E.A. Sutherland is an AuDHD researcher and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Her research sits at the intersection of various cognitive sciences. Her PhD at the University of Edinburgh examined what autistic people’s accounts of social interaction reveal about social communication in autism, foregrounding lived experience alongside cognitive theory. She now works on the God, Language, and Diversity project, where she investigates the linguistic properties of rabbinic midrash and their implications for understanding and assessing linguistic creativity. More generally, she uses interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches, to studies how and why people arrive at different interpretations of the same communicative act or social situation – and how such differences can generate both valuable diversity and potential misunderstandings.

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