{"id":28455,"date":"2023-08-31T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=28455"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:19","slug":"congratulations-to-sociology-ma-student-kai-jacobsen-on-being-awarded-the-autism-scholars-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2023\/congratulations-to-sociology-ma-student-kai-jacobsen-on-being-awarded-the-autism-scholars-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to sociology MA student Kai Jacobsen on being awarded the Autism Scholars Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to sociology MA student Kai Jacobsen on being awarded the Autism Scholars Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Sociology MA student Kai Jacobsen has won the Autism Scholars award 2023, in recognition for their groundbreaking research on the experiences of transgender autistic people and accessibility in health care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacobsen is currently pursuing their Master of Arts in Sociology, specifically looking at the barriers to health care that disproportionately affect transgender autistic individuals. Jacobsen explains, \u201cMy master\u2019s thesis is about trans autistic people\u2019s experiences of accessing gender-affirming care, and we know from existing research that trans people are more likely to be autistic than the general population, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2023\/carleton-grad-student-earns-autism-scholar-award\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology MA student Kai Jacobsen has won the Autism Scholars award 2023, in recognition for their groundbreaking research on the experiences of transgender autistic people and accessibility in health care. Jacobsen is currently pursuing their Master of Arts in Sociology, specifically looking at the barriers to health care that disproportionately affect transgender autistic individuals. Jacobsen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-gr","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28465,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455\/revisions\/28465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}