Sarah Crockford

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher situated within the Molecules to Health Research Program where I work on methodological innovations in large scale clinical imaging and genomics data. Previously, I worked with Michael Lombardo as a post-doc at the Laboratory for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Rovereto, Italy. My PhD was completed at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos, where I worked on the relationship between multilingualism and autistic traits. Prior to my doctoral work, I was a research assistant and master’s student at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (University College London, UK) and a research intern at the Autism Research Centre (University of Cambridge, UK).

My interests can be summed as looking for novel, cross-disciplinary methodological approaches that allow us to improve our ability to draw concrete inferences from naturalistic, heterogenous data. During my PhD I primarily worked on understanding multilingual diversity in autism using previous applications of information theory on multilingual data, and my most recent work has been on investigating interpersonal similarity in naturalistic gaze data and large language model interpretability for naturalistic discourse. My research interests have an emphasis on applications to clinical, multilingual, linguistic, and developmental research.

In my spare time I write poetry, sing in choir, walk the dog, and have yet to formally retire from the Trinity mayball committee despite having graduated some time ago.