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October 5, 2025 Great news about upcoming talks. On a panel at The Royal in Ottawa November 13, and two one-hour presentations in Edmonton, late January 2026. I'm at the in-person Networking session the day before the Women in Mind conference, link is here https://bit.ly/46sP6ew. For the CASE conference Jan 28-30 visit: https://childrensautism.ca/2026-conference/
Summer/Fall 2025 Three scoping reviews citing my research appear. " A Perfect Storm" is at nearly 16,000 views in 18 months. "Struggling for Years" is officially at 7,000 in nine months. My PDF version brings it to 10,000.
Skommer and Ganesh: https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1531934
Aimee Grant et al. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/25739581251369452 Free version: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395188245_Autism_and_the_Menopause_Transition_A_Mixed-Methods_Systematic_Review Table 2 shows our first two papers got JBI scores of 9 and 8! JBI is a critical appraisal tool to assist in "assessing the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers."
Gavin Stewart & Francesca Happé: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-111323-090813
June 27, 2025 The last of the BtS papers is published. "Stepping into Who I Fully Am: A Creative Exploration of Autistic Menopause" by Mx Rose Matthews, me and four others. tinyurl.com/CreativeMenopause
Autistic community researchers used creative, reflexive approaches to respond to arts-based submissions, rather than to rely on traditional academic methods.…creative methods had the potential to act as a catalyst for activism, artivism, and self-actualization, encouraging personal transformation and magical transcendence through a process of (to paraphrase one of our participants) “stepping into” who we fully are.
June 25, 2025 Local podcast on the human side of menopause with Tonya Pomerantz called Menopause, Midlife and Mayhem. Recorded on June 12. Available on many platforms like this one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hcKDBndsXDe3FBFXs73mX For other podcast episodes, search Christine A. Jenkins and Autism or visit my Linktree linktr.ee/christineajenkins .
May 13, 2025 Live webinar with Q&A hosted by GRAADA (Grounded Research for Autistic Adolescents and Adults) in Quebec. https://youtu.be/YYERkoZo0XQ?si=4I5_bNqTvtA_UXTD
February 26, 2025 I was interviewed by Maxine Share of AIDE Canada. You can watch a captioned version in French or English here:
December 22, 2024 Results of the International survey on Autistic Menopause have been published. I am co first-author. Neurodiversity journal released this initial report of 508 participants from 24 countries. The PDF of "Struggling for Years": tinyurl.com/StrugglingPDF Contact me for Supplementary files.
Easy-to-read review here: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/autistic-people-face-additional-menopause-challenges
Spring 2024 : My poem on sensory hell caused by clothing tags appears in the Digital Repository of Autistic Sensory Truths, Insights and other Contributions https://pressbooks.pub/thealttext/chapter/drastic-digital-repository-of-autistic-sensory-truths-insights-and-other-contributions/
April 15, 2024 My Bridging the Silos team has published its first article on Autistic experiences of menopause. "A Perfect Storm": Autistic experiences of menopause and midlife. As of mid 2025 over 14,000 views have been registered. Here is the link to the Open Access paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613241244548 Several Research Briefs in lay language are available on our team web site : www.autisticmenopause.com
March 8, 2024 Alt text: A Red Letter Day: International Women's Day Speaking engagement for Canadian federal government My Menopause at Work event--nearly 80 attended online.
February 10, 2024
I've given two recent talks on Autistic menopause with the BtS team.
I have three academic papers in the pipeline.
Speaking on International Women's Day as a Canadian researcher and expert
September 30, 2023
I'm having an exciting 2023!
I'm on several new advisory teams.
I've been on a webinar and podcast. Uniquely Human and Whittington Wellbeing.
In November I give two talks in New Brunswick on aging and on menopause. https://www.unb.ca/cel/conference/apac/workshops.html
I hope to be published again soon.
New book chapter!
January 1, 2023
A team I worked with has had their initiative published in this book in December (for purchase or download). Congratulations to OAAI!
Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship
Drolet, J. L., Charles, G., McConnell, S. M., & Bogo, M. (eds). (2022), University of Calgary Press.
Chapter citation: Janse van Rensburg MG, Weaver C, Jenkins C, et al. Using an Advocacy Practicum to Establish a Framework for Virtual Community Consultations in the Ottawa Adult Autism Community in Drolet, JL, Charles G, McConnell SM, Bogo M, eds. Transforming Social Work Field Education. University of Calgary Press, 2022. http://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/9781773854403/resource/tswfe-chapter12
INTRODUCTION Field Research Scholarship in Social Work Education
p. 12 “In chapter 12, Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Courtney Weaver, Christine Jenkins, Morgan Banister, Edward King, Sheila Bell, and the Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative discuss an advocacy practicum to establish a framework for virtual community consultations.
The chapter presents a doctoral level advocacy practicum of 130 hours that was created by Carleton University’s School of Social Work.
This chapter outlines the processes where members of the Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative were accompanied by an advocacy practicum student to create a strategy to host virtual consultations with the adult autism community in Ottawa, Canada.
The chapter is informed by Critical Autism Studies, which centres autistic persons as experts in autism, and critical pedagogy, which considers critical consciousness as a means for political participation.
Together, the authors created an Instructions and Guidance Document and a set of recommendations to engage the adult autism community in virtual consultations.
The chapter demonstrates the important contributions of a practicum student working in partnership with community members in a volunteer grassroots organization that aims to assist adults on the autism spectrum and their families in finding the support and services they need.
p. 13 ….The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance for students to develop virtual social work practice skills such as the virtual consultation process described and explained in this chapter.”
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Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship
Drolet, J. L., Charles, G., McConnell, S. M., & Bogo, M. (eds). (2022), University of Calgary Press.
Our project is under way!
February 19, 2022
Bridging the Silos: Autistic Menopause Study starts recruiting for Phase One this week. Here is an profile produced by Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs. As of Fall 2023 visit the web site www.autisticmenopause.com
Update October 28, 2022
Please visit and check out Phase 2 (Phase 1 is now concluded.)
Research starts!
February 4, 2022
See my research team’s latest news bulletin here: https://autisticmenopause.com/blog/ Go to the Home page for info on the entire Bridging the Silos team. I’m on the bottom row, second from the right.
New contract!
September 1, 2021
I have the pleasure of announcing that I have signed a contract with Carleton University! Beginning today, September 1, I am the Community Research Associate for Bridging the Silos: Autistic Menopause Study with Dr. Miranda Brady of the School of Journalism and Communications.
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